Twins

A physically perfect, but innocent, man goes in search of his twin brother, who is a short small-time crook.

• Director: Ivan Reitman
• Genre:Comedy
• Runtime:107 minutes

Cast

Arnold Schwarzenegger : Julius Benedict
Danny DeVito : Vincent Benedict
Kelly Preston : Marnie Mason
Chloe Webb : Linda Mason
Bonnie Bartlett : Old Mary Ann Benedict

Julius and Vincent Benedict are fraternal twins; the results of a secret experiment carried out at a genetics laboratory to produce the perfect child, using sperm donated by six different fathers. The mother, Mary Ann Benedict (who was thought to have died while giving birth to Vincent and Julius) was told that the children died at birth. Accepting this, she had gone on to become a successful artist. The program was considered a failure and shut down because of the conception of the twins, one inheriting the “desirable traits”, and the other, the “genetic trash”.

In fact, the children both survived. Vincent was placed in an orphanage run by nuns in Los Angeles, California whilst Julius was taken to an unnamed South Pacific island and raised by Professor Werner (one of the scientists involved in the experiment) like a modern Doc Savage to become highly intelligent, physically very strong and spiritually pure. He learned to speak twelve languages, and excelled in mathematics, history, science and literature. He was not told about his younger brother until his 35th birthday.[1]

In Los Angeles, with no-one but himself to rely on, Vincent escaped from the orphanage as soon as he was old enough and developed into the ultimate lowlife, involved in shady business deals and car theft and in debt to loan sharks. He is also a womanizer and a smart aleck with a lust for money. He is about to be beaten up by the loan sharks when he is arrested for unpaid parking fines.

Julius is told about his unknown brother by Werner, and comes to Los Angeles to look for him. Highly intelligent, but extremely naïve about the real world his more worldly brother inhabits, he bails Vincent out of jail, and meets Vincent’s on-off-on girlfriend Linda Mason. Knowing little about women, Julius doesn’t understand the flirtatious advances of her blonde sister Marnie (who dislikes Vincent), but eventually falls in love with her. Read more

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