Twins (1988)
Storyline
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.
Directors
Cast
Heather Graham, Tony Jay, Danny DeVito, Sven-Ole Thorsen, Tom McCleister, Marshall Bell, Kelly Preston, Catherine Reitman, Rosemary Dunsmore, Jason Reitman, Richard Portnow, Dendrie Taylor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Frank Davis, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Joe Medjuck, Tom Platz, Ty Granderson Jones, Maury Chaykin, Marvin J. McIntyre, S.A. Griffin, Steve Reevis, Frances Bay, Jay Arlen Jones, Roger Callard, Bruce McBroom, David Efron, David Caruso, Billy D. Lucas, Chloe Webb, Peter Dvorsky, Gus Rethwisch, Bonnie Bartlett, Trey Wilson, Hugh O'Brian, Nehemiah Persoff, Jeff Beck, Wayne Grace, Elizabeth Kaitan, Robert Harper, Richard deFaut, Lora Milligan, Lew Hopson, Thomas Wagner, Linda Porter, John Michael Bolger, Terry Bozzio, Tony Hymas, Nicolette Larson, Jill Avery, Dustin Amy, Raymond Storti
Trailer
Reviews
75
Twins is not a great comedy - it's not up there with Reitman's "Ghostbusters" and DeVito is not as funny as he was in "Ruthless People" and "Wise Guys" - but it is an engaging entertainment with some big laughs and a sort of warm goofiness.
70
Los Angeles Times
Twins starts with an overblown fairy-tale quality that seems as if it should work. But, by the finish, the movie collapses on the shoulders of the stars. It works because they both showed up and delivered the goods and kept their end of the deal. [9 Dec 1988, p.1]
63
Boston Globe
The attempts to supply heart are never more than synthetic, but Schwarzenegger, as the good guy with the good genes, and his goofy sweetness lift Twins into the win column. [9 Dec 1988, p.33]
63
San Francisco Chronicle
For a big, floppy, silly movie that is in many ways the epitome of throwaway entertainment, Twins has its charms. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito make it seem they had so much fun making this flabby comedy that the fun becomes infectious.
63
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Shtick is what Twins is all about, but there's good shtick and bad shtick, and there's enough good shtick in Twins, the majority of it involving Arnold Schwarzenegger's exposure to modern U.S. mores, to keep the momentum going. [10 Dec 1988, p.C3]
