Watch Dead Ringers
- R
- 1988
- 1 hr 55 min
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7.2 (54,726)
Dead Ringers is a 1988 psychological thriller starring Jeremy Irons. The film was adapted from the novel Twins. Irons plays a dual role. He portrays Eliot and Beverly Mantle. The Mantles are successful gynecologists in Canada. Eliot is a womanizer who seduces his female patients and then passes them along to Beverly when he tires of them.
The situation between the two brothers becomes complicated when a female patient named Claire Niveau enters the picture. Beverly becomes emotionally involved with Claire. Eliot takes sexual advantage of her because she thinks that he is Beverly. She leaves town and Beverly becomes psychotic because of his prescription drug abuse.
Dead Ringers is a 1988 thriller with a runtime of 1 hour and 55 minutes. It has received mostly positive reviews from critics and viewers, who have given it an IMDb score of 7.2 and a MetaScore of 86.