Twins is a 1988 comedy film, produced and directed by Ivan Reitman about unlikely twins who were separated at birth. The core of the film is the relationship between DeVito's streetwise character and Schwarzenegger's intellectual persona. The original music score was composed by Georges Delerue and Randy Edelman. As it grossed $11 million on its opening weekend, the film then grossed $216 million worldwide. Julius and Vincent Benedict are fraternal twins; the results of a secret experiment carried out at a genetics laboratory to produce the perfect child, using sperm donated by six different... fathers. The mother, Mary Ann Benedict, was told that Julius died at birth, and was not even aware that Vincent ever existed. Julius was informed that his mother died in childbirth. Vincent was raised in an orphanage, and learned from a letter in his file that his mother had abandoned him. Mary Ann had gone on to become a successful artist. While successful, the genetics program was considered a failure and shut down because of the conception of the twins, one inheriting the "desirable traits," and the other getting the "genetic trash.
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| Release date: | December 9, 1988 |
| Directed by: | Ivan Reitman |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 105 Minutes |
| Producer: | Ivan Reitman |
| Editor: | Sheldon Kahn, Donn Cambern |
| Music by: | Randy Edelman, Georges Delerue |
| Cinematography: | Andrzej Bartkowiak |
| Screenplay by: | William Davies, William Osborne, Herschel Weingrod |
| Estimated budget: | $14,000,000 |
| Genre: | Comedy |