When Claire learns that Elliot has been taking sexual advantage of her by impersonating Beverly, she is angry and confronts them both in a restaurant but later decides to continue a relationship with Beverly exclusively.Įventually, Claire leaves town to work on another film, sending Beverly into clinical depression, more prescription drug abuse and paranoid delusions about 'mutant women' with abnormal genitalia. Beverly also begins sharing Claire's abuse of prescription drugs which he abets through his doctor's authority. Beverly becomes emotionally attached to Claire, and this upsets the equilibrium between the twins. Elliot seduces Claire and then urges Beverly to sleep with her. When he tires of them, the women are passed on to the shy and passive Beverly while the women remain unaware of the substitution.Īctress Claire Niveau comes to the clinic for her infertility where it turns out that she has a 'trifurcated cervix', meaning she probably will be unable to have children. Elliot, the more confident and cynical of the two, seduces women who come to the Mantle Clinic. Twins Elliot and Beverly Mantle are gynecologists who jointly operate a highly successful clinical practice in Toronto that specializes in treating fertility problems. Toronto International Film Festival critics have ranked it among the Top 10 Canadian Films of All Time. The film won numerous honors, including for Irons' performance, and 10 Genie Awards, notably Best Motion Picture. Their script was based on the lives of Stewart and Cyril Marcus and on the novel Twins by Bari Wood and Jack Geasland, a 'highly fictionalized' version of the Marcuses' story. David Cronenberg directed and co-wrote the screenplay with Norman Snider. Dead Ringers is a 1988 psychological thriller film starring Jeremy Irons in a dual role as identical twin gynecologists.

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