Check out the two films based on the work of the science fiction writer Philip K. Dick: Impostor Screamers These fit your stipulations. SJU ----- Original Message ----- From: "Laura Jean Carroll" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> 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 ---- Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the University of Alabama: http://www.tcf.ua.edu