But can she play the role well enough to fool suspicious police sergeant Hobbson (Karl Malden) and handsome, gold-digging playboy Tony Collins (Peter Lawford)?ĭead Ringers (1988) with Jeremy Irons and Genevieve Bujold Now Edith, envious of her recently widowed sister’s life and wealth, murders Margaret and assumes her identity. Margaret won the competition when she falsely claimed to be pregnant. The twins are implicated in a Hollywood murder and a police detective (Thomas Mitchell) must figure out if one or both were involved in the killing.ĭead Ringer (1964) with Bette Davis, Karl Malden and Peter Lawfordīette Davis stars in a dual role as a pair of evil twins–a jealous murderer and her wealthy widowed sister, her Dead Ringer.Twenty years ago, twins Edith and Margaret Phillips (Davis) both loved the same handsome, wealthy man. Olivia De Havilland plays twin sisters in this entertaining psychological film noir. The Dark Mirror (1946) with Olivia de Havilland and Lew Ayres The Van Waldenbergs will stop at nothing to beat the competition, even if that means literally beating up the competition. The two rivals team up to go against the twin brother-and-sister team of Stranz and Fairchild Van Waldenberg (played by Arnett and Poehler). Now, three-and-a-half years on, they’ve found a loophole that will allow them to compete: if they can put aside their differences, they can skate together – in pairs’ figure skating. When rival figure skaters Chazz Michael Michaels (Ferrell) and Jimmy MacElroy (Heder) go ballistic in an embarrassing, no-holds-barred fight at the World Championships, they are stripped of their gold medals and banned from the sport for life.
Forty years later, their paths cross amid the hustle and bustle of Manhattan, and the result is unrestrained pandemonium.īlades of Glory (2007) with Will Ferrell, Jon Heder, Amy Poehler, and Will Arnett As Charlie struggles to adapt Orlean’s best-selling book “The Orchid Thief,” he writes himself into his own movie.īig Business (1988) with Bette Middler and Lily Tomlinīette Midler and Lily Tomlin star in this critically acclaimed box office hit about two sets of identical twins who are mismatched at birth. Listing these movies here does not imply recommendation or endorsement by the Washington State Twin Registry.Īdaptation (2002) with Nicolas Cage, Meryl Streep, and Chris Cooperĭirector Spike Jonze delivers a stunningly original comedy that seamlessly blends fictional characters and situations with the lives of real people: obsessive orchid hunter John Laroche (Cooper), New Yorker journalist Susan Orlean (Streep), Hollywood screenwriter Charlie Kaufman (Cage), and his twin brother, Donald (also Cage).
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