Overview:
Julius and Vincent Benedict are the results of an experiment that would allow for the perfect child. Julius was planned and grows to athletic proportions. Vincent is an accident and is somewhat smaller in stature. Vincent is placed in an orphanage while Julius is taken to a south seas island and raised by philosophers. Vincent becomes the ultimate low life and is about to be killed by loan sharks.| Status: | Released (1988-12-09) |
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| Awards: | 4 wins & 1 nomination total |
| BoxOffice: | $111,938,388 |
| Screen: | William Davies, William Osborne, Timothy Harris |
| Productions: | Universal Pictures |
| Production Countries: | United States of America |
| Spoken Languages: | English |
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Casts
- 1100: Arnold Schwarzenegger - Julius Benedict
- 518: Danny DeVito - Vincent Benedict
- 11164: Kelly Preston - Marnie Mason
- 43476: Chloe Webb - Linda Mason
- 32479: Bonnie Bartlett - Old Mary Ann Benedict
- 3041: Marshall Bell - Webster
- 4039: Trey Wilson - Beetroot McKinley
Crews
- 8858: Ivan Reitman - Director - Directing
- 10765: Andrzej Bartkowiak - Director of Photography - Camera
- 8847: Donn Cambern - Editor - Editing
- 57341: William Osborne - Screenplay - Writing
- 14711: Timothy Harris - Screenplay - Writing
- 8858: Ivan Reitman - Producer - Production
- 7068: Sheldon Kahn - Editor - Editing
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Reviews
John Chard
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So much fun to be had here. As long as you know what to expect, and really that shouldn't be too hard to do when you are getting ready to watch a movie that has Danny DeVito & Arnold Schwarzenegger as twin brothers! Julius (Arnold) & Vincent (Danny) are the result of a genetic ....
Continue reading ->Kamurai
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Good watch, could watch again, and can recommend, if you're okay with a date movie. This movie holds up surprisingly well. It is dated quite a bit, just the dollar amounts they mention are off, and car phones and pay phones. I give full credit to the delivery of Arnold Schwarzen ....
Continue reading ->JPV852
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Fun and all around enjoyable comedy that doesn't devolve into cheap humor (i.e. constant jokes about their height for instance) and instead two opposites working well off of one another. Schwarzenegger is great as sweet innocent and naïve while Devito as a schemer and crook still was ....
Continue reading ->r96sk
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<em>'Twins'</em> is terrific! It is another one 'of those films' that I've heard about for as long as time (though post-watch it doesn't seem as (relative) well known as I thought it was!) but clearly never got around to watching it. Well I have now and I'm certainly glad I did, i ....
Continue reading ->Kali
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It's... fine? Not as good as it was hyped up to be in my opinion. The movie was okay, but it wasn't anything special. It had _a story_ but it wasn't outstanding. The same goes for every other aspect of the movie. Worth watching if it's your thing, even if only for DeVito's perform ....
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