The big screen reunites Three Identical Strangers

It’s a real-life story so wild you have to see it to believe it.

The Brock University Film Society’s (BUFS) next offering, Three Identical Strangers, is an exuberant celebration of family that transforms into a thriller and proves life is truly is stranger than fiction.

Tim Wardle’s 2018 documentary tells the true tale of three teens who, brought together by an astonishing coincidence, discover they are identical triplets separated at birth and adopted by three different families. Their jaw-dropping, feel-good story instantly becomes a global sensation complete with fame and celebrity, however, the fairy-tale reunion also sets in motion a series of events that unearth a shocking secret with radical repercussions.

Three Identical Strangers will be screened Thursday, Oct. 25 at the Film House in downtown St. Catharines.

The Toronto Star’s Peter Howell says the film has a “story so outlandish it might well have been rejected by a Hollywood studio had a screenwriter pitched it as the basis of a fictional movie.”

Tickets are available at the Film House in the FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre (PAC) on the evening of screenings.

General admission is $9 or $7 for members, plus tax. Memberships, as well as a calendar of films coming to the PAC, are available through the Film House website. Look for the red B that indicates a BUFS-hosted screening.

Visit the BUFS web page for a full list of this season’s selections. 

For more than 40 years, Brock’s Department of Communication, Popular Culture and Film has hosted the film society (previously known as a series) to bring some of the best in independent, international and Canadian cinema to St. Catharines.


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