In the 1970’s, three young men in suburban New York who looked exactly alike found out that they were triplets, and that they were separated at birth when three different families each adopted one of them.
So begins Three Identical Strangers, which reconstructs the wild spectacle when the media got wind of the brothers. The boys were an instant comedy show (and ran a Manhattan restaurant call Triplets), but their story took a dark turn with news that a trusted Jewish adoption agency had separated the three babies to study them, with disastrous effects. Tim Wardle’s doc scrutinizes the nature versus nurture debate for which triplets and twins were torn away from their siblings, all in the name of science.
Filmography: One Killer Punch (2016), Lifers (2012).