Twins (1988 film)

Twins is a 1988 American comedy film produced and directed by Ivan Reitman about unlikely twins played by Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito who were separated at birth. The core of the film is the relationship between DeVitos streetwise character and Schwarzeneggers intellectual persona. The original music score was composed by Georges Delerue and Randy Edelman Edelman would score three more films for the director, whereas this was Delerues only work for him.

Julius Benedict Arnold Schwarzenegger and Vincent Benedict Danny DeVito are fraternal twins, the results of a secret experiment carried out at a genetics laboratory to produce the perfect child. To the surprise of the scientists, the embryo split and twins were born. The mother, Mary Ann Benedict, was told that Julius died at birth, and not told about Vincent at all. Julius was informed that his mother died in childbirth. Vincent believed his mother abandoned him. Each twin is unaware of the others existence.Vincent was placed in an orphanage run by nuns in Los Angeles while Julius was taken to a South Pacific island and raised by Professor Werner Tony Jay. On Julius 35th birthday, Werner tells him that he has a twin brother. Julius leaves the island to find him. In Los Angeles, with no one but himself to rely on, Vincent escaped from the orphanage and became an indebted, smalltime crook. ........

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