River Nile 2

Natalie Portman said:Is everyone really this clueless about the whole deal with those twins? 😕 😢

Look, they were part of an experiment. Basically, three families from rural towns swapped their kids with the children of professors—the theory being that farm kids are physically hardier, so if you drop them into academic households with top-tier education, you end up creating some kind of superman. When the twins were born, they went through the same swap: one stayed with her biological mother (the farmer), while the other ended up in the professor's family. Once they grew up and realized what happened, they tracked down the truth and decided to get even.
Fair warning: the book handles all this much better—it’s a tense, gripping thriller—whereas the movie barely scratches the surface.

Rebecca Gonzalez3 said:Once they grew up and ran into each other, they looked into the whole mess and decided it was time for some payback.
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Apparently, it all started when the school district realized there were two identical girls on the enrollment rolls.
So the older one basically staged this whole accident where she lost a finger just to get them harassed.
I haven't actually read the book, but the bonus DVD pretty much lays it all out. 😁