Twin Falls Idaho.* Directed by Michael Polish * Written by and starring Michael and Mark Polish * Columbia TriStar Home Video This languid lan·guid adj. 1. Lacking energy or vitality; weak: a languid wave of the hand. 2. Showing little or no spirit or animation; listless: a languid mood. 1999 Sundance Film Festival favorite probably owes its warm reception to the fact that, in any given year, you don't see a whole lot of movies about conjoined twins conjoined twins or Siamese twins Identical twins (see multiple birth) whose embryos did not separate completely. Conjoined twins are physically joined (typically along the trunk or at the front, side, or back of the head) and often share some organs. . Of course, as one fey character points out in a Halloween party scene, twins represent a major gay fantasy, particularly when the twins in question are the madly attractive Polish brothers (identical, not conjoined conjoined /con·joined/ (kon-joind´) joined together; united. conjoined joined together. conjoined monsters two deformed fetuses fused together. ), here playing a pair of circus "freaks" holed up in a fleabag flea·bag n. Informal 1. A seedy, rundown hotel or other lodging place. 2. An animal considered to be inferior or in poor condition. Noun 1. hotel and in search of theft mother. Cliches abound--the hooker with the heart of gold, the kindly stranger, the deathbed reunion--but the film comes from a genuine place (these guys know theft material), which gives emotional weight to its quiet lessons about love, acceptance, and separation. |
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