Twins

Twins is a 1988 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 DeVito's streetwise character and Arnold's intellectual persona. The original music score was composed by Georges Delerue and Randy Edelman. Julius and Vincent Benedict are fraternal twins; the results of a secret experiment carried o... more

Twins is a 1988 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 DeVito's streetwise character and Arnold's intellectual persona. The original music score was composed by Georges Delerue and Randy Edelman. 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 Benedict (who was thought to have died while giving birth to Vincent and Julius) was told that the children died at birth. Accepting this, she had gone on to become a successful artist. The program was considered a failure and shut down because of the conception of the twins, one inheriting the "desirable traits", and the other, the "genetic trash". In fact, the children both survived. Vincent was placed in an orphanage... less