Twins
Only their mother can tell them apart.
1988 • 107 min • Comedy
Synopsis
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.
Our family guide
Best from age 9- 100 Reviewers · 6 · 69%
- 61 Audience · 2572 · 31%
Genetically engineered twins, separated at birth, finally meet as adults. One, raised by philosophers, is a gentle giant; the other, a small-time crook. They embark on a cross-country search for their mother, navigating comical mishaps and criminal encounters along the way.
- Violence & peril
- 3/10
- Language
- 2/10
- Drinking, drugs & smoking
- 3/10
- Romance & sensuality
- 1/10
- Scary moments
- 2/10
Heads up
- Some comedic slapstick violence
- Brief mild profanity
- Characters shown drinking and smoking
What it models well
- Family bonds are strong
- Everyone has unique talents
- Accepting differences
Talk about it after
- What makes a family?
- Judging people by their appearance
- The importance of honesty
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Top billed cast
Director: Ivan Reitman • Crew: William Davies, William Osborne, Timothy Harris, Herschel Weingrod
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Reviewer notes
Recommended**_Schwarzenegger and DeVito team-up for this amusing 80’s road dramedy_** A genetically superior man living on an island in the South Pacific (Arnold) goes to Los Angeles to find his long lost twin brother, who turns out to be a womanizing petty criminal (Danny). Along with two sisters (Kelly Preston and Chloe Webb), they travel to New Mexico to find their father and mother while eluding loan sharks.…
RecommendedIt'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 performance, which is probably the best bit of the movie.…
Recommended<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, it's a great watch. Danny DeVito and Arnold Schwarzenegger are a fantastic duo. DeVito is always good, one of my favourites to see onscreen.…
RecommendedFun 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 likeable. **3.75/5** I think I had seen this sometime back in the 90s but didn't remember much of it.
RecommendedTrusted family reviewersGood 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 Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito that keeps this movie enjoyable after all this time.…
RecommendedTrusted family reviewersSo 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!…
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Details
- TMDB audience
- 6.1/10 (2,572)
- Age rating
- PG
- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $15,000,000
- Box office
- $216,614,388
- IMDb
- tt0096320
