The Silent Twins

Sep 16, 2022

1h 53m

★ 6.7

Imagination will set you free.

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.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Kindred Spirit

Madants

30WEST

Moderator Inwestycje

CANAL+ Polska

The Silent Twins Trailers

Cast

June

Letitia Wright

Jennifer

Tamara Lawrance

Young June

Leah Mondesir-Simmonds

Young Jennifer

Eva-Arianna Baxter

Gloria

Nadine Marshall

Aubrey

Treva Etienne

Tim Thomas

Michael Smiley

Marjorie Wallace

Jodhi May

Wayne Kennedy

Jack Bandeira

Sister Nowak

Kinga Preis

Greta

Amarah-Jae St. Aubyn

David (14)

Hubert Sylla

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