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Dead Ringers
MEANRANK
75/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #1452
- IMDb #1780
- Rotten Tomatoes #1215
- Metacritic #696
- Letterboxd #955
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #1495
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- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #1477
- Metacritic Critics #360
- Metacritic Audience #1967
- Criticker #499
- Kinopoisk #2502
- AlloCiné #1822
- Trakt #2490
Every rating
Mostly agreed
Lowest is Criticker on 64, highest is Metacritic critics on 86. Critics average 86, everyone else 72.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →Elliot, a successful gynecologist, works at the same practice as his identical twin, Beverly. 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, but when she inadvertently deceives him, he slips into a state of madness.
Details
- Director
- David Cronenberg
- Writers
- David Cronenberg, Norman Snider
- Released
- 23 September 1988
- Country
- Canada, United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 116 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $13.0M
- Box office
- $8.0M
- Awards
- 14 wins, 2 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
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| Chicago Film Critics Association 1989 | Best Actor | Jeremy Irons | Winner |
| Genie Awards 1989 | Best Motion Picture | David Cronenberg and Marc Boyman | Winner |
| Genie Awards 1989 | Best Direction | David Cronenberg | Winner |
| Genie Awards 1989 | Best Adapted Screenplay | David Cronenberg and Norman Snider | Winner |
| Genie Awards 1989 | Best Actor | Jeremy Irons | Winner |
| Genie Awards 1989 | Best Actress | Geneviève Bujold | Nominee |
| Genie Awards 1989 | Best Editing | Ronald Sanders | Winner |
| Genie Awards 1989 | Best Art Direction | Carol Spier | Winner |
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16 awards — Dead Ringers
×| Best Actor | Jeremy Irons | Winner |
| Best Adapted Screenplay | David Cronenberg and Norman Snider | Winner |
| Best Art Direction | Carol Spier | Winner |
| Best Cinematography | Peter Suschitzky | Winner |
| Best Direction | David Cronenberg | Winner |
| Best Editing | Ronald Sanders | Winner |
| Best Motion Picture | David Cronenberg and Marc Boyman | Winner |
| Best Score | Howard Shore | Winner |
| Best Sound | Bryan Day, Andy Nelson and Don White | Winner |
| Best Sound Editing | Terry Burke, Richard Cadger, Wayne Griffin, David Evans and David Giammarco | Winner |
| Best Actress | Geneviève Bujold | Nominee |
| Best Costume Design | Denise Cronenberg | Nominee |
| Best Director | David Cronenberg | Winner |
| Best Supporting Actress | Geneviève Bujold | Winner |
| Best Actor | Jeremy Irons | Winner |
| Best Actor | Jeremy Irons | Winner |