Movie
The Silent Twins
Overview
June and Jennifer Gibbons are twins from the only Black family in a small town in Wales in the 1970s and '80s. Feeling isolated from the community, the pair turn inward and reject communication with everyone but each other, retreating into their own fantasy world of inspiration and adolescent desires. After a spree of vandalism, the girls are sentenced to Broadmoor, an infamous psychiatric hospital, where they face the choice to separate and survive or die together.
Details
- Release date
- 2022-09-16
- Runtime
- 113 min
- Genres
- Drama
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Kindred Spirit, Madants, 42, 30WEST, Grupa Moderator Studio Filmowe, CANAL+ Polska
- Country
- United Kingdom, Poland, United States of America
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Letitia Wright as June
- Tamara Lawrance as Jennifer
- Leah Mondesir-Simmonds as Young June
- Eva-Arianna Baxter as Young Jennifer
- Nadine Marshall as Gloria
- Treva Etienne as Aubrey
- Michael Smiley as Tim Thomas
- Jodhi May as Marjorie Wallace
- Jack Bandeira as Wayne Kennedy
- Kinga Preis as Sister Nowak
- Amarah-Jae St. Aubyn as Greta
- Hubert Sylla as David (14)
Crew
- Agnieszka Smoczyńska - Director
- Andrea Seigel - Screenplay
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