Which film has Jeremy Irons in a dual role as twin gynecologists who are descending into madness?

Great movie. Disturbing, depressing…fun for the whole family

obvious answer

Good movie.

Post Mortem On Twin Doctors – 1988 by John F. Burns, The New York Times May 1, 1988 Jeremy Irons, who made a major impact on American audiences with his performances in television’s ”Brideshead Revisited” and with his Tony Award-winning role in the Broadway version of Tom Stoppard’s ”Real Thing,” has been particular in his selection of film roles. Mr. Irons, who will turn 40 later this year, has appeared in only seven pictures, none of them made in Hollywood and only two of them, ”The French Lieutenant’s Woman” and ”The Mission,” widely known among mainstream audiences. Lately, Mr. Irons has opted for larger risks. To the chagrin of at least some of his English friends, he has spent the last 10 weeks in Toronto filming ”Twins,” a psychological drama scheduled for a 20th Century Fox release in the United States this fall. In the film, Mr. Irons plays two roles, Beverly and Elliott Mantle, identical twin brothers who are partners in a world-renowned fertility clinic, who share a passion for one of their famous patients and who see their practice – and their lives – dissolve in a haze of drugs. The outline may seem familiar to anybody who was reading the front pages of New York’s newspapers 13 years ago, when the deaths of two gynecologists who were identical twins, Dr. Stewart L. Marcus and Dr. Cyril C. Marcus, shocked the medical profession and the city. In July 1975, the Marcus brothers, who had been specialists at Cornell University Medical School and its affiliate, New York Hospital, were found dead in the Manhattan apartment of one of the brothers, victims of barbiturate addiction. Despite the broad parallels with the $8 million Toronto production, in which Mr. Irons co-stars with the Canadian actress Genevieve Bujold, production executives insist that theirs is a fictional treatment that stands at two removes from the real-life events in New York. To begin with, the basis for the film is the 1977 novel ”Twins,” by Bari Wood and Jack Geasland, whose story line bears little relation to the Marcus tragedy other than the element of identical twin gynecologists addicted to drugs. Beyond that, the screenplay is said to be a liberal adaptation of the book. The location has been removed to Toronto from New York, and one major element of the book, the homosexuality of one of the brothers, has been abandoned. What is left is a plot about the two close but contrasting brothers, the confident, glib Elliott and the introverted, sensitive Beverly, about a French actress (played by Miss Bujold) with a drug habit who comes to their clinic seeking help in having a child, and about the involvement of both brothers with her.