Overview
New York, 1980: three complete strangers accidentally discover that they're identical triplets, separated at birth. The 19-year-olds' joyous reunion catapults them to international fame, but also unlocks an extraordinary and disturbing secret that goes beyond their own lives - and could transform our understanding of human nature forever.
Whenever I watch a movie or a documentary I try to avoid knowing much about what I am about to watch as humanly possible. Quite often I go by the score on rotten tomatoes and maybe the first line of the description. If both seem agreeable I might give it a go.
I knew the basic premise of this film: three men find each other later in life. You pretty much know this by the title and watching the first few minutes of the film. I also knew that here had to be much, much more than this. And boy…. wow. At various points of the film my wife and I would stop to discuss something because we could not wait. There was no shortage of empathy, outrage and disbelief as the story continued to be told. The final five minutes are absolutely breathtaking – I won’t say more than that. That said, I would have left out the last minute of the documentary because it seemed like less of a take-away than what had just been revealed.
One side note: the way that the story is told is absolutely perfect. The director could have easily played games and made it more suspenseful than it needed to be.
IHATEBadMovies.com reviews Three Identical Strangers
Movie title: Three Identical Strangers
Movie description: New York, 1980: three complete strangers accidentally discover that they're identical triplets, separated at birth. The 19-year-olds' joyous reunion catapults them to international fame, but also unlocks an extraordinary and disturbing secret that goes beyond their own lives - and could transform our understanding of human nature forever.
Date published: 2018-09-25
Director(s): Tim Wardle
Actor(s): David Kellman, Robert Shafran, Eddy Galland
Genre: Documentary
My Review
Whenever I watch a movie or a documentary I try to avoid knowing much about what I am about to watch as humanly possible. Quite often I go by the score on rotten tomatoes and maybe the first line of the description. If both seem agreeable I might give it a go.
I knew the basic premise of this film: three men find each other later in life. You pretty much know this by the title and watching the first few minutes of the film. I also knew that here had to be much, much more than this. And boy…. wow. At various points of the film my wife and I would stop to discuss something because we could not wait. There was no shortage of empathy, outrage and disbelief as the story continued to be told. The final five minutes are absolutely breathtaking – I won’t say more than that. That said, I would have left out the last minute of the documentary because it seemed like less of a take-away than what had just been revealed.
One side note: the way that the story is told is absolutely perfect. The director could have easily played games and made it more suspenseful than it needed to be.
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My Review - 9.5/10
9.5/10