
Dead Ringers
Release Date
1988
Film Synopsis
Twin gynecologists take full advantage of the fact that nobody can tell them apart, until their relationship begins to deteriorate over a woman.
Elliot (Jeremy Irons), a successful gynecologist, works at the same practice as his identical twin, Beverly (also Irons). 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 (Geneviève Bujold), but when she inadvertently deceives him, he slips into a state of madness.
Photo credit: 20th Century Fox
Past Programs
2025
Bioethical body horror: The philosophical underpinnings of Cronenberg's 'Dead Ringers'
Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY