Movie Doubles : One Actor - Multiple Roles
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*Lily Tomlin and Bette Midler, Big Business (1988): Let's see if I can get through this without my laptop screen exploding from the sheer flaming homosexuality generated by the pairing of Tomlin and Midler as two sets of mismatched identical twins where one ended up with a poor hick family and the other with blue-blood city types. It's as camp as a knicker factory, but pleasures don't come much guiltier...Damn, there goes my screen. It was worth it.
*Jeremy Irons, Dead Ringers (1988)
The Cork-pink-castle-dweller delivers probably his finest screen performance(s) as twin gynaecologists Beverly Mantle and Elliot Mantle in this classic David Cronenberg head-feck. The brothers share female patients, but then one starts to properly wig out when they fall for the same gal. Not one to watch before your next check-up, erm, down there, ladies. It does for gynaecologists what Marathon Man did for dentists and Glitter did for Mariah Carey-esque singers.
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