Twins (film)

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Twins

Twins movie poster
Directed by Ivan Reitman
Produced by Ivan Reitman
Written by William Davis
William Osborne
Timothy Harris
Herschel Weingrod
Starring Arnold Schwarzenegger
Danny DeVito
Kelly Preston
Chloe Webb
Bonnie Bartlett
Cinematography Andrzej Bartkowiak
Distributed by Universal Studios
Release date(s) December 9, 1988 (USA)
Running time 105 min.
Language English
Budget $15,000,000 USA (estimated)
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Twins is a 1988 comedy film directed by Ivan Reitman about unlikely twins (played by Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito) that were separated at birth. The core of the film is the relationship between Devito's streetwise character and Arnie's Ingenue persona.

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Danny De Vito and Hulk Hogan have all revealed in interviews that Schwarzenegger and De Vito were given the option of doing this movie or Suburban Commando. Had the two done Surburban Commando, Hulk Hogan and Christopher Lloyd would have done this movie. Only Hogan and De Vito state that Vincent would have been hassled by horse racing bookies instead of loan sharks.

Tagline: Only their mother can tell them apart.

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Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

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 was told that the children died at birth. Accepting this, she goes on to become a successful artist.

In fact, they both survived. Vincent was placed in an orphanage run by nuns in Los Angeles whilst Julius was taken to an unnamed South Pacific island and raised to become highly intelligent, physically very strong and spiritually pure. He was not told about his younger brother.

In Los Angeles, with no-one but himself to rely on, Vincent escapes from the orphanage as soon as he is old enough and develops into the ultimate lowlife, involved in shady business deals and car theft and in debt to loan sharks. He is about to be killed by the loan sharks when he is arrested for unpaid parking fines.

Julius is told about his unknown brother, and comes to Los Angeles to look for him. Highly intelligent, but extremely naive about the real world his brother inhabits, he bails Vincent out of jail and meets his on-off-on girlfriend Linda Mason. Knowing little about women, he doesn't understand the flirtatious advances of her blonde sister Marnie, but eventually falls in love with her.

Using a stolen car that's carrying a stolen secret prototype jet engine, which Vincent is delivering to a rival industrialist, the two couples go on a crosscountry journey to track down the scientist who was in charge of the experiment, and pressure him to reveal the location of their mother. She lives at an artists' colony, but she doesn't believe their story and sends them packing.

Angry and disappointed, Vincent storms off and delivers the stolen property in return for five million dollars. Julius saves him from being killed by Webster, the real contract delivery man, who has tracked them down.

They return the money (the "four million dollars", suggesting they (or at least Vincent) skimmed a million off), marry the sisters, and use the $50,000 reward money to start up a legitimate consulting business ("Like the RAND corporation...only smarter!"), utilizing Julius' knowledge and Vincent's questionable business savvy. As a result of the publicity, their mother tracks them down and they are tearfully reunited. In the end, both brothers end up having pairs of twins with their respective wives.

Spoilers end here.

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