BOX OFFICE RESULT: $111.9 million (USA)
-- Leonard Maltin
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| TWINS (1988) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 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. When Vincent becomes the ultimate low life and is about to be killed by loan sharks, Julius discovers that he has a big brother and begins looking for him. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Arnold Schwarzenegger (Julius Benedict), Danny DeVito (Vincent Benedict), Kelly Preston (Marnie Mason), Chloe Webb (Linda Mason), Bonnie Bartlett (Mary Ann Benedict), Trey Wilson (Beetroot McKinley), Marshall Bell (Webster), David Caruso (Al Greco), Hugh O'Brian (Granger), Nehemiah Persoff (Mitchell Traven), Maury Chaykin (Burt Klane), Tony Jay (Werner), Tom McCleister (Bob Klane), David Efron (Morris Klane), Peter Dvorsky (Peter Garfield), Robert Harper (Gilbert Larsen), Rosemary Dunsmore (Miss Busby), Richard Portnow (Chop Shop Owner), Sven-Ole Thorsen (Sam Klane), Gus Rethwisch (Dave Klane), Joe Medjuck (Photographer), Heather Graham (uncredited, Young Mary Ann Benedict). | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| ONLY THEIR MOTHER CAN TELL THEM APART. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| DIRECTOR: Ivan Reitman (Junior). | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| WRITERS: William Davies, William Osborne, Timothy Harris and Herschel Weingrod. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| PRODUCER: Ivan Reitman. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| ASSOCIATE PRODUCERS: Sheldon Kahn and Gordon A. Webb. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Michael C. Gross and Joe Medjuck. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| ORIGINAL MUSIC: Randy Edelman and Georges Delerue. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| DISTRIBUTOR: Universal Pictures. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| RELEASE DATE: December 9th, 1988 (USA) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| BOX OFFICE OPENING: $11.1 million (USA) BOX OFFICE RESULT: $111.9 million (USA) |
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| Julius Benedict: Thank you for the cookies. I look forward to tossing them. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| - When Julius visits Vincent in prison, Vincent calls him "Mr. Universe", a title that Arnold Schwarzenegger held for several years, twenty-five years earlier. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Julius Benedict: If you're lying, I'll be back! | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| - Two real life twins were reunited with their father after seeing him in the scene set outside the Alamo. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| "Entertaining comedy...effectively blends sentiment and roughhouse humor, with the two mismatched starts packing extra punch in their delightful performances." -- Leonard Maltin |
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| - Heather Graham, who would later go onto star in films such as Boogie Nights, Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me and Bowfinger, has a cameo as young Mary Ann Benedict. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| "Twins is not a great comedy...but it is an engaging entertainment with some big laughs and a sort of warm goofiness." -- Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun Times | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| - The film won a 1989 People's Choice Award for Favorite Comedy Motion Picture. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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