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'''''Three Identical Strangers''''' is a 2018 [[documentary film]] directed by Tim Wardle and starring Edward Galland, David Kellman and Robert Shafran. It examines a set of American [[triplets]] who were [[adopted]] as six-month-old infants by separate families, unaware that each child had brothers. The separations were done as part of an undisclosed scientific "[[nature versus nurture]]" [[twin study]], to track the development of genetically identical siblings raised in differing circumstances. Combining archival footage, re-enacted scenes, and present-day interviews, the documentary reveals how the brothers discovered one another at age 19 and thereafter sought to understand the circumstances of their separation.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/entertainment-arts-44795305/three-identical-strangers-the-secret-study-of-triplets |title=Film tells of secret study of triplets |first=Tom |last=Brook |publisher=[[BBC]] |work=[[BBC News]] |date=July 12, 2018 |accessdate=August 28, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://nypost.com/2018/06/23/these-triplets-were-separated-at-birth-for-a-twisted-psych-study/ |title=Separated-at-birth triplets met tragic end after shocking psych experiment |first=Sara |last=Stewart |newspaper=[[New York Post]] |date=June 23, 2018 |accessdate=September 17, 2018}}</ref>
'''''Three Identical Strangers''''' is a 2018 [[documentary film]] directed by Tim Wardle and starring Edward Galland, David Kellman and Robert Shafran. It examines a set of American [[triplets]] who were [[adopted]] as six-month-old infants by separate families, unaware that each child had brothers. Combining archival footage, re-enacted scenes, and present-day interviews, the documentary reveals how the brothers discovered one another at age 19 and thereafter sought to understand the circumstances of their separation.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/entertainment-arts-44795305/three-identical-strangers-the-secret-study-of-triplets |title=Film tells of secret study of triplets |first=Tom |last=Brook |publisher=[[BBC]] |work=[[BBC News]] |date=July 12, 2018 |accessdate=August 28, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://nypost.com/2018/06/23/these-triplets-were-separated-at-birth-for-a-twisted-psych-study/ |title=Separated-at-birth triplets met tragic end after shocking psych experiment |first=Sara |last=Stewart |newspaper=[[New York Post]] |date=June 23, 2018 |accessdate=September 17, 2018}}</ref>


The film premiered at the [[2018 Sundance Film Festival]],<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/movies/2018/06/26/three-identical-strangers-true-story-triplets-separated-birth/727003002/ |title='Three Identical Strangers': How triplets separated at birth became the craziest doc of 2018 |first=Patrick |last=Ryan |newspaper=[[USA Today]] |publisher=[[Gannett Company]] |accessdate=August 28, 2018 |date=June 26, 2018}}</ref> where it won the U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Storytelling.<ref>{{cite journal |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/sundance-film-festival-2018-winners-list-1078976 |title=Sundance Film Festival 2018 winners list |first=Gregg |last=Kilday |journal=[[The Hollywood Reporter]] |date=January 27, 2018 |accessdate=August 28, 2018 }}</ref>
The film premiered at the [[2018 Sundance Film Festival]],<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/movies/2018/06/26/three-identical-strangers-true-story-triplets-separated-birth/727003002/ |title='Three Identical Strangers': How triplets separated at birth became the craziest doc of 2018 |first=Patrick |last=Ryan |newspaper=[[USA Today]] |publisher=[[Gannett Company]] |accessdate=August 28, 2018 |date=June 26, 2018}}</ref> where it won the U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Storytelling.<ref>{{cite journal |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/sundance-film-festival-2018-winners-list-1078976 |title=Sundance Film Festival 2018 winners list |first=Gregg |last=Kilday |journal=[[The Hollywood Reporter]] |date=January 27, 2018 |accessdate=August 28, 2018 }}</ref>

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Three Identical Strangers
Theatrical release poster
Directed byTim Wardle
Produced by
  • Becky Read
  • Grace Hughes-Hallett
Starring
  • Edward Galland
  • David Kellman
  • Robert Shafran
CinematographyTim Cragg
Edited byMichael Harte
Music byPaul Saunderson
Distributed byNeon
Release dates
  • January 19, 2018 (2018-01-19) (Sundance)
  • June 29, 2018 (2018-06-29) (United States)
Running time
96 minutes
Countries
  • United States
  • United Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Box office$12.3 million[1]

Three Identical Strangers is a 2018 documentary film directed by Tim Wardle and starring Edward Galland, David Kellman and Robert Shafran. It examines a set of American triplets who were adopted as six-month-old infants by separate families, unaware that each child had brothers. Combining archival footage, re-enacted scenes, and present-day interviews, the documentary reveals how the brothers discovered one another at age 19 and thereafter sought to understand the circumstances of their separation.[2][3]

The film premiered at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival,[4] where it won the U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Storytelling.[5]

Premise

The three brothers were born to a single mother on July 12, 1961. They were actually quadruplets; the fourth brother died at birth.[6] At the direction of a Jewish adoption agency and psychiatrists Viola W. Bernard and Peter B. Neubauer, the three infants were intentionally placed with families at different economic levels — one blue-collar, one middle-class, and one wealthy — who had each adopted a baby girl from the same agency two years earlier. The brothers were raised by their adoptive families as David Kellman, Eddy Galland, and Bobby Shafran, respectively.[7][8] They discovered one another through a coincidental college connection in 1980 and became very close, but all three struggled with depression throughout their lives, which ultimately led to Galland's suicide in 1995.[8]

Reception

On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 96% based on 140 reviews, with an average rating of 8.2/10. The website's critical consensus reads: "Surreal and surprising, Three Identical Strangers effectively questions the nature of reality and identity."[9] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 81 out of 100, based on 28 critics, indicating "universal acclaim".[10]

The Neubauer twin experiment was first publicized in a 1995 New Yorker article by investigative journalist Lawrence Wright,[11] who appears in the film. The same, never-completed twin study was the subject of the 2007 memoir Identical Strangers[12] and the 2017 documentary The Twinning Reaction.[13]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Three Identical Strangers (2018)". Box Office Mojo. IMDb. Retrieved November 3, 2018.
  2. ^ Brook, Tom (July 12, 2018). "Film tells of secret study of triplets". BBC News. BBC. Retrieved August 28, 2018.
  3. ^ Stewart, Sara (June 23, 2018). "Separated-at-birth triplets met tragic end after shocking psych experiment". New York Post. Retrieved September 17, 2018.
  4. ^ Ryan, Patrick (June 26, 2018). "'Three Identical Strangers': How triplets separated at birth became the craziest doc of 2018". USA Today. Gannett Company. Retrieved August 28, 2018.
  5. ^ Kilday, Gregg (January 27, 2018). "Sundance Film Festival 2018 winners list". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved August 28, 2018.
  6. ^ "Eddy Galland, Robert Shafran and David Kellman said Friday..." United Press International. November 26, 1980. Retrieved September 6, 2018.
  7. ^ Saul, Stephanie (January 31, 1998) [First published October 18, 1997]. "Separated Triplets Had Been Studied Since Birth". Newsday. Retrieved August 28, 2018 – via Greensboro News & Record.
  8. ^ a b Kaufman, Amy (July 1, 2018). "The surreal, sad story behind the acclaimed new doc 'Three Identical Strangers'". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved August 28, 2018.
  9. ^ "Three Identical Strangers (2018)". Rotten Tomatoes. Fandango Media. Retrieved November 21, 2018.
  10. ^ "Three Identical Strangers Reviews". Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved November 21, 2018.
  11. ^ Wright, Lawrence (August 7, 1995). "Double Mystery". The New Yorker. Retrieved September 17, 2018.
  12. ^ Flaim, Denise (November 25, 2007). "Lost and Found: Twin sister separated at birth are reunited and work toward a new relationship". Racine Journal Times. Retrieved August 28, 2018.
  13. ^ Shinseki, Lori. "The Twinning Reaction". Firehorse Pictures. Retrieved July 22, 2018.
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