Tag Archives: dual role

The Dark Half

IMDB Rating: 5.70
4119 votes

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Novelist Thad Beaumount has buried his alter ego George Stark, a pseudonym he used when writing fiction of a darker nature than he would write using his real name. He even stages a mock burial of George for the benefit of the press. When a local man is killed, evidence leads Sheriff Alan Pangborn to George's grave, and he begins to suspect Thad. Meanwhile Thad is beginning to have visions of sparrows flying, something that hasn't occurred for twenty-three years since he had brain surgery. As the string of gruesome murders continue, someone claiming to be George Stark starts calling Thad on the phone. Thad fears for his family's safety, and Pangborn can't decide whether or not Thad is the murderer.
Actors
Thad BeaumontTimothy Hutton
George StarkTimothy Hutton
Liz BeaumontAmy Madigan
Also posted in 1993, Horror, Mystery | Comments (0)

The Time Machine

IMDB Rating: 7.60
8517 votes

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From the book by H.G. Wells, a scientist and tinkerer builds a time machine and uses it to explore the distant future where there are two races, a mild gentle race, and a cannibalistic one living underground. His machine is stolen by the underground race and he must risk being captured (and eaten) to return to his own time.
Actors
H. George WellsRod Taylor
David FilbyAlan Young
James FilbyAlan Young
Also posted in 1960, Adventure, High IMDB rating, Sci-Fi | Comments (0)

The Last Starfighter

IMDB Rating: 6.40
8512 votes

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This is the story of a videogaming boy, named Alex Rogan who lives in a remote trailer court where his mother is manager and everyone is like a big extended family. Meanwhile, Alex becomes the top player of Starfighter, a stand-up arcade game where the player defends "the frontier" from "Xur and the Kodan armada" in a space battle. After achieving his best score, he is approached by the game's inventor, Centauri. Stepping into Centauri's vehicle, he is seemingly doomed to stay at his trailer park home all in his life, he finds himself recruited as a gunner for an alien defense force when Centauri is a disguised alien who whisks him off to another planet.
Actors
Alex RoganLance Guest
Beta AlexLance Guest
GrigDan O'Herlihy
Also posted in 1984, Action, Adventure, Family, High IMDB rating, Sci-Fi | Comments (0)

Bad Company

IMDB Rating: 5.30
13814 votes

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When a CIA agent is killed during a nuclear arms purchase, his partner Oakes, recruits his twin brother, Jake Hayes. Jake had no idea he had a twin brother, let alone that he worked for the CIA. Jake, a.k.a. Michael Turner, has nine days to fill his brother's place. However, the enemy terrorists learn of his secret identity and kidnap his girlfriend/fiancee. He has to rescue them and save New York city from an imminent nuclear terrorist act.
Actors
AndreMarek Vasut
Officer McCainWills Robbins
Officer ParishDeVone Lawson Jr.
Also posted in 2002, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Thriller | Comments (0)

Adaptation.

IMDB Rating: 7.80
39351 votes

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Frequently cynical screenwriter Charlie Kaufman has just taken on a new assignment. That is, to adapt writer Susan Orlean's "The Orchid Thief" into a screenplay, all of it based on the life of the eccentric John Laroche, an exotic plant collector based out of Florida. While his easygoing twin brother Donald, is writing scripts with ease, Charlie finds himself on a perpetual struggle that never seems to end.
Actors
Charlie Kaufman/Donald KaufmanNicolas Cage
Susan OrleanMeryl Streep
John LarocheChris Cooper
Also posted in 2002, Comedy, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

The Spiderwick Chronicles

IMDB Rating: 7.10
4376 votes

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Once upon a time, upon moving into the run-down Spiderwick Estate with their mother, twin brothers Jared and Simon Grace, along with their sister Mallory, find themselves pulled into an alternate world full of faeries and other creatures. Unable to explain the strange disappearances and accidents that seem to be happening on a daily basis, the family blames it all on Jared. When he, Simon and Mallory investigate what's really going on, they uncover the fantastic truth of the Spiderwick estate and of the creatures that inhabit it.
Actors
Jared Grace/Simon GraceFreddie Highmore
MulgarathNick Nolte
Arthur SpiderwickDavid Strathairn
Also posted in 2008, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (0)

The One

IMDB Rating: 5.30
12228 votes

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This movie postulates what if there is more than one universe. And that all of these universes are held together by one single stream of energy and that energy is equally distributed to every living in each universe and if one of these beings die, that energy is reallocated equally to each other surviving member. And with each allocation, a person becomes stronger. Now one universe has master the ability of crossing into another universe, and a man named Shulaw who believes that if he can kill all of his counterparts, he will become invincible, but there are those who believe that it might have detrimental effects, so try and stop him. Unfortunately, he just has one more person to kill, Gabe Law, but the officers follow Shulaw but Shulaw has committed some crimes and Gabe is accused and is wanted. But Gabe discovers that he has changed and only wants to kill Shulaw not realizing what could happen.
Actors
Gabe Law/Gabriel Yulaw/LawlessJet Li
T.K. Law/Massie WalshCarla Gugino
MVA Agent Harry Roedecker/Gas Station AttendantDelroy Lindo
Also posted in 2001, Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller | Comments (9)

Constantine

IMDB Rating: 6.50
36603 votes

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The story of irreverent supernatural detective John Constantine, who has literally been to Hell and back. When Constantine teams up with skeptical policewoman Angela Dodson to solve the mysterious suicide of her twin sister, their investigation takes them through the world of demons and angels that exists just beneath the landscape of contemporary Los Angeles. Caught in a catastrophic series of otherworldly events, the two become inextricably involved and seek to find their own peace at whatever cost.
Actors
John ConstantineKeanu Reeves
Angela Dodson/Isabel DodsonRachel Weisz
ChasShia LaBeouf
Also posted in 2005, Action, Drama, Fantasy, High IMDB rating, Horror, Thriller | Comments (3)

The 6th Day

IMDB Rating: 5.80
13864 votes

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A helicopter pilot survives a near-fatal accident and returns to his home - to find that he's been replaced by an exact duplicate of himself, a clone. When the clone's creators find out the pilot didn't die in the crash, the hunt is on.
Actors
Adam GibsonArnold Schwarzenegger
Hank MorganMichael Rapaport
Michael DruckerTony Goldwyn
Also posted in 2000, Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller | Comments (18)

Dracula

IMDB Rating: 7.10
31400 votes

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This version of Dracula is closely based on Bram Stoker's classic novel of the same name. A young lawyer (Jonathan Harker) is assigned to a gloomy village in the mists of eastern Europe. He is captured and imprisoned by the undead vampire Dracula, who travels to London, inspired by a photograph of Harker's betrothed, Mina Murray. In Britain, Dracula begins a reign of seduction and terror, draining the life from Mina's closest friend, Lucy Westenra. Lucy's friends gather together to try to drive Dracula away.
Actors
DraculaGary Oldman
Mina Murray/ElisabetaWinona Ryder
Professor Abraham Van HelsingAnthony Hopkins
Also posted in 1992, Drama, Fantasy, High IMDB rating, Horror, Romance, Thriller | Comments (0)
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