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Scott Andrew Hutchins <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 25 Feb 2002 11:14:00 -0500
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Dead Ringers
Latitude Zero
The Keeper (trivial overall, but briefly significant)

The Wizard of Oz is out since that aspect has nothing to do with the book, same with Return to Oz.

Scott

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From: "Laura Jean Carroll" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2002 6:50 PM
Subject: looking for double-role film


> Hi; apologies for cross-posting.
>
> I'm looking for a film to discuss in my thesis where a single actor plays
> two different parts and the characters look alike or identical.  (e.g., they
> are twins, siblings, doppelgangers, reincarnations, whatever.)  It needs to
> be an important part of the story that the two characters look alike - the
> plot might turn on mistaken identity or something - but it's clear that they
> are not, in the fiction, the same person (so not VERTIGO.)  To be of use to
> me the film must, must, must be adapted from a literary work (but not a
> play), and inherit the look-alikes from it. (Ideally the actor in question
> would be a star, or at least a familiar face; and the film would be
> something worth studying & thinking about.
> Thanks very much,
>
> Laura Carroll
>
>
>
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