A surprisingly good movie, starring the excellent Jeremy Irons, who plays identical twins Elliot and Beverly Mantle, who work as gynocologists and can quite literally read each other like a book. The scenes where both brothers are next to each other is wonderfully skillful and after a while you genuinely do forget that there is only one actor playing two parts. How Irons did some of it I will never know.
When Beverly forms a close attachment to a famous actress who he has diagnosed as having an abnormal reproductive system it ruins the close relationship that both brothers have, and sends the brothers one after the other on a downward spiral that will end in tragedy.
Acting is superb from Irons but ruined by the plastic and unemotional Genevieve Bujold who couldn't act her way out of a paper bag.
A film to watch twice, just to see really how clever the composition and split shots are.
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