Handout/Sarnia This Week cineSarnia will be screening the documentary Three Identical Strangers on Feb. 10 and Feb. 11, a film that follows the surreal and shocking story of three identical triplets – Robert Shafran, Edward Galland, and David Kellman – who were separated at birth but reunited nearly 20 years later.
The documentary about the shocking but true story of three identical triplets separated at birth who accidentally rediscovered each other in the early Eighties will be shown in Sarnia at the public library theatre on Feb. 10 and 11 beginning at 7:30 p.m.
Each of the brothers were sent to families from completely different backgrounds – one was adopted by a doctor and a lawyer, another was sent to a middle-class family, while the third was given to a blue collar family.
While the first portion of the film is mind-boggling in its own right and generally light-hearted, covering the triplets’ remarkable reunion and the media storm that followed (the trio appeared on numerous television talk shows such as The Phil Donahue Show, even making a cameo opposite Madonna on Desperately Seeking Susan), the film then takes a dark turn, looking beyond the initial joy of the brothers’ reunion and seeking to answer some questions that popped up after their collective euphoria died down.
The extraordinary answers to these questions are revealed in a gripping, illuminating and ultimately shocking second part of the film, where long-held lies and secrets come to light and the brothers’ story is analyzed through a completely different prism.