Three Identical Strangers

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
Production
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Distributed by
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
Budget$1–4 million[2]
Box office$12.3 million[3]

Three Identical Strangers is a 2018 documentary film, directed by Tim Wardle, about the lives of Edward Galland, David Kellman, and Robert Shafran, a set of identical-triplet brothers adopted as infants by separate families. Combining archival footage, re-enacted scenes, and present-day interviews, it recounts how the brothers discovered one another by chance in New York in 1980 at age 19, their public and private lives in the years that followed, and their eventual discovery that their adoption had been part of an undisclosed scientific "nature versus nurture" study of the development of genetically identical siblings raised in differing socioeconomic circumstances.[4]

The film premiered at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival,[5] where it won the U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Storytelling.[6] It was nominated for Best Documentary at the 72nd British Academy Film Awards, and was also on the shortlist of 15 films (out of a field of 166 candidates) considered for nomination for Best Documentary Feature at the 91st Academy Awards, though it was not selected as one of the final five nominees for the award.[7]

  1. ^ "Three Identical Strangers (2018)". BBFC. Retrieved 2 June 2024.
  2. ^ Kaufman, Anthony (December 17, 2018). "Sundance Hits and Misses: How MoviePass, Politics and Streaming Boosted the Indie Theatrical Box Office of 2018". Filmmaker Magazine. Independent Filmmaker Project. Retrieved January 16, 2019. Budget: Low seven figures
  3. ^ "Three Identical Strangers (2018)". Box Office Mojo. IMDb. Retrieved November 3, 2018.
  4. ^ Brook, Tom (July 12, 2018). "Film tells of secret study of triplets". BBC News. BBC. Retrieved August 28, 2018.
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ Kilday, Gregg (January 27, 2018). "Sundance Film Festival 2018 winners list". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved August 28, 2018.
  7. ^ Kojen, Natalie (December 17, 2018). "91st Oscars Shortlists in Nine Award Categories Announced" (PDF) (Press release). Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved January 2, 2019.