Dangerous Twins
{{short description|2004 Nigerian Drama film}}
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{{Infobox film
| name = Dangerous Twins
| image = Movie poster of Dangerous Twins.jpg
| alt =
| caption = Dangerous Twins Poster
| director = Tade Ogidan
| writer = Tade Ogidan
| producer = Tade Ogidan
| starring = Ramsey Nouah
Stella Damasus-Aboderin
Bimbo Akintola
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| music =
| studio = OGD Pictures
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| released = {{Film date|df=yes|2004}}
| runtime = 135 minutes
| country = Nigeria
| language = English
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Dangerous Twins is a 2004 Nigerian drama film written, produced and directed by Tade Ogidan.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uTVlKirJmGgC&pg=PA293 |title=Global Nollywood|isbn=978-0253009425|last1=Krings|first1=Matthias|last2=Okome|first2=Onookome|date=27 May 2013|publisher=Indiana University Press }}{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qVakAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT274 |title=African Youth in Contemporary Literature and Popular Culture|isbn=9781134624003|last1=Yenika-Agbaw|first1=Vivian|last2=Mhando|first2=Lindah|date=21 January 2014|publisher=Routledge }}
The film, which stars Bimbo Akintola, Ramsey Nouah and Stella Damasus-Aboderin is a 135 minutes, three-part film that won the 1st Africa Movie Academy Awards for Best Special Effects.{{cite web|url=http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/features/showtime/2005/may/13/showtime-13-05-2005-006.htm|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060909132636/http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/features/showtime/2005/may/13/showtime-13-05-2005-006.htm|title=The Sun News On-line|archivedate=9 September 2006|work=sunnewsonline.com}}
Ramsey Nouah played a dual role, as Taiye and Kenny in the film.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oeaPAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT235 |title=World Cinemas, Transnational Perspectives|isbn=9781135869984|last1=Durovicová|first1=Nataša|last2=Newman|first2=Kathleen E.|date=10 September 2009|publisher=Routledge }}
Plot summary
The film narrates the story of identical twins, Taiye and Kehinde. Kehinde is based in Lagos with his wife and his three children, while Taiye is based in London. The agony of a marriage without children, after several years frustrates Taiye, who convinces Kehinde to trade places with him in order to impregnate his wife. However, more problems result.{{cite web|url=http://www.nollywoodnow.co.uk/dangerous-twins/|title=7.30pm Friday 8 October: Dangerous Twins|work=nollywoodnow.co.uk}}
Kehinde betrays his twin brother's trust and violence follows.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-g6jPGy7EQYC&pg=PA93 |title=21st-Century Hollywood|isbn=9780813551982|last1=Dixon|first1=Wheeler Winston|last2=Foster|first2=Gwendolyn Audrey|date=31 August 2011|publisher=Rutgers University Press }}{{cite news|author=Clementina Olomu |title=Nigeria: The Magic of Dangerous Twins|url=https://allafrica.com/stories/200405140878.html|access-date=17 January 2023|work=allAfrica|agency=This Day|date=14 May 2004}} (Subscription required)
Production
The film was produced in Nigeria by OGD Pictures Production but shot in a foreign context in multiple locations, including Nigeria, London, France, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Belgium and United States of America.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OpHsdlW4v0sC&pg=PA239 |title=Postcolonial Italy|isbn=9781137281456|last1=Lombardi-Diop|first1=Cristina|last2=Romeo|first2=Caterina|date=6 December 2012|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan }}{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CMg--t-YQWQC&pg=PA403 |isbn=9780253003362|publisher=Indiana University Press|title=The New African Diaspora|page=403|year=2009|author=Isidore Okpewho|author2= Nkiru Nzegwu}}
Cast
- Ramsey Nouah as Taiye / Kehinde
- Stella Damasus-Aboderin
- Bimbo Akintola
- Sola Asedeko
- Nobert Young
- Sola Sobowale
- Anna Fiertag as Marsha
- Danielle Moubarak as Judy
- Lanre Balogun
- Obiageli Molube
- Charles Ukpong
- Jason Welsh as Immigration Officer
References
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Category:Films about twin brothers
Category:2000s English-language films
Category:English-language Nigerian films
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