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Twin
Falls Idaho
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Release
Date: September 1st 2000
Distributor: Downtown
Certificate: 15
Starring: Mark Polish, Michael Polish,
Michele Hicks, Jon Gries, Patrick Bauchau, Garrett Morris
Director: Michael
Polish
Running Time:
110 mins
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Strange,
strange, strange, strange, strange. And now the review for Twin Falls Idaho.
Blake and Francis Falls are close, very close, so close in fact they are
Siamese twins. They can appreciate that their life together is going to
be a short and probably less than thrilling affair, and added to the fact
that Francis will soon be dead, and on what is probably their last birthday
together, they decide to have a night of passion. Not with each other of
course But who will share an intimate moment with these two outcasts of
society? |
| Blake
hires a prostitute, Penny, to come and see to his needs. She turns up to
the hotel room thinking that this will be another punter whom she can get
an hours work out of. She is somewhat shocked then to discover the real
situation, which she is rapidly dropped into. First of all she is horrified,
but then she starts to see the twins and their tragic life in a new more
compassionate light. It then goes a step further and she finds herself attracted
to Blake, which upsets Francis to a degree that he has never experienced
in his life. |
| This
film could've easily gone down the path of a sick Farrelly Brother's comedy,
but, nobly refrains from this, and gives the audience a film with which
to wrench your heart strings on a notably higher level than any of the Rom/Coms
of late. The twins in the film, are not Siamese in real life, but they portray
the tragic life of the Falls with a convincing realism. No special effects
could be afforded in the budget, but it really doesn't matter and while
far from a classic, this film should be watched as an antidote to the big
blockbusters hulking around your local multiplex at the moment. |
| Graeme
Hepper |
