Fresh
Director David Cronenberg handles his usual fondness for gore in muted style.
Variety Staff, Variety
Dead Ringers
Two bodies. Two minds. One soul.
1988 · 1h 55m · R
Horror, Thriller
Directed by
David Cronenberg
,
David Walden
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Dead Ringers
Overview
Elliot, a successful gynecologist, works at the same practice as his identical twin, Beverly. Elliot is attracted to many of his patients and has affairs with them. When he inevitably loses interest, he will give the woman over to Beverly, the meeker of the two, without the woman knowing the difference. Beverly falls hard for one of the patients, Claire, but when she inadvertently deceives him, he slips into a state of madness.
Director and cast
- David Cronenberg Director
- David Walden Director
- Jeremy Irons as Beverly Mantle / Elliot Mantle
- Geneviève Bujold as Claire Niveau
- Heidi von Palleske as Cary
- Barbara Gordon as Danuta
- Shirley Douglas as Laura
- Stephen Lack as Wolleck / Anders Wolleck
- Nick Nichols as Leo
- Lynne Cormack as Arlene
- Damir Andrei as Birchall
- Miriam Newhouse as Mrs. Bookman
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
86%
Tomatometer
Rotten
People like myself who find the character played by [Genevieve] Bujold (in one of her best performances) more interesting than either of the twins are bound to feel rather frustrated by the end.
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
Fresh
An intense psychological drama which confronts [Cronenberg's] familiar preoccupations -- fear of physical and mental disintegration, mortality, the power struggle between the sexes -- without the paradoxical protection of visceral disgust.
Nigel Floyd, Time Out
Fresh
Cronenberg, who has begun to emerge as a master of body-related horrific fantasy, clearly understands that a small amount of medical mischief can be more unnerving than conventional grisliness.
Janet Maslin, New York Times
Rotten
Really sordid stuff that becomes ridiculous, painful, unbelievable and tedious.
Rita Kempley, Washington Post
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