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I just watched Kinsey recently, and kept saying "Holy crap, where'd they get that kid?!" Amazing resemblance. Excellent list.

Remember how River Phoenix was great in that last Indiana Jones film they ever made? The third one? Yeah he was great in that.

Aren't you forgetting a little movie by the name of...

*smote into oblivion by lightning sent down by the movie gods*

One movie that has both good double-casting and bad double-casting is Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang. Harry Lockhart at 9 was played by Indio Falconer Downey, who shares 50% of his DNA with RDJ. It was a good casting choice. Harry Lockhart in high school was played by (looking up...) Richard Allen Brown, who... well, the coloring's relatively similar, I guess, but it fails partially because of the Bale Effect and partially because Brown's eyes are too small.

He would make a good university-aged Jim Moriarty on Sherlock, though.

Geena Davis/Lynn Cartwright as Dottie Hinson.

No way the human being Lynn Cartwright exists. She is fake and that is Geena Davis in old-people make-up. I do not believe a word of your awful lies.

Oh and how about a little love for Marty McFly's mom and dad. I swear, when I was eight, that shit blew my mind.

I thought for the longest time that Lynn Cartwright WAS Geena Davis, with makeup.

I would add Jim Broadbent and Hugh Bonneville in Iris. Obviously Winslet and Dench are powerhouses, but they're so distinctive on their own I never really felt like they were the same person. Broadbent and Bonneville were eerie they were so similar.

I mean its also cheating kind of but I think the Ralph Fiennes and then his young nephew as the younger voldermort (tom riddle) is so spot on and that child actor is so creepy. It's perfect!

I thought Morgan Turner (young Veda) and Evan Rachel Wood (grown Veda) in HBO's Mildred Pierce were great.

Not the best pics, but you get the idea.

http://www.hbo.com/mildred-pierce/cast-and-crew/young-veda-pierce/index.html

http://www.hbo.com/mildred-pierce/cast-and-crew/young-veda-pierce/index.html#/mildred-pierce/cast-and-crew/veda-pierce/index.html

Well-done, Joanna! I salute you.

And Jim Broadbent is one of those human beings that I just can't imagine ever was young. Like in my mind, he has spent his entire 60-or-so years of life as a 60-or-so year old man. The idea of him young blows my mind.

I must see this movie!

The kid who played a young Matt Damon in The Departed! They look a lot alike.

Joanna: I love all three Indiana Jones movies, and all three Star Wars movies, and all three X-men movies!

One of my favorite directors, Richard Linklater
I see what you did there...

They dubbed in Davis’s voice for Cartwright’s scenes, but the resemblance is uncanny.
So THAT's why I used to think old and young Dottie were played by the same person.

I'm certainly not going to argue with you, MySharona, when it comes to the book. It's been way too long since I read it. I'll add it to the reread pile. But, I will argue that in the film, they heavily (with, like, an anvil), imply that Idgie and Ninny are one and the same. The end scene where "Ninny" places the honey on Ruth's grave, bee charming just like Idgie used to, and then twinkles at Kathy Bates when she asks if Idgie's still alive? Gives her a coy, "yes we might see her around her somewhere"? I think the intention in the film is to imply that Ninny is Idgie and the whole third person storytelling was a ruse. So, if not obvious, heavily implied. Fair?

in regards to i need more alloweance yes there is speculation among some that there is a subtle hint that idgie and ninny are the same person because of that.

however i am with myysharona in that it really doesn't make sense that they could be. idgie and ruth raised stump together while ninny talks about her son, and only son, albert who was mentally handicapped

See I always (possibly erroneously) thought that the life Ninny described (with Cleo and Albert) was the life she has AFTER Ruth passed. I don't like it either, to be honest, because it moves further and further from the Sapphic themes in the book. But I still (stubbornly) say the the intention of the FILM is that they are the same person.

MySharona's totally right about the honey, though.

David Kross as a young Ralph Fiennes in "The Reader" just annoyed the hell outta me. They look nothing alike, and, as spot-on as Kross' performance was, I just kept thinking through the whole movie, "This is the best actor lookalike that they could come up with?"

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Smartass.

Am I the only one who refers to Fried Green Tomatoes as Soylent Green Tomatoes in their head?

I just re-watched Fried Green Tomatoes because I didn't remember any part of this discussion. It's clear that the film wants the viewer to believe that Idgie and Ninny are the same person. The viewer can only know what Ninny chooses to share and how she chooses to tell her story. The flashbacks cannot be considered "true." Either Ninny is lying about her connection to the Threadgoode family (if she's in fact Idgie), or she's lying in that she omits herself from all the scenes she would appear to have first-hand knowledge of (as Ninny never appears in flashback.) I don't think there's any further "proof" than that. Evelyn arrives to find honey on Ruth's grave. Who put it there and when is not known.

And why does Liam Neeson want to attack me in that picture?

You opened the window for TV, so...

Young Ned/ Present Ned on Pushing Daisies.

Field Cate/Lee Pace

"I just re-watched Fried Green Tomatoes because I didn't remember any part of this discussion. It's clear that the film wants the viewer to believe that Idgie and Ninny are the same person. The viewer can only know what Ninny chooses to share and how she chooses to tell her story."

Absolutely. I don't see any point to that scene, otherwise.

That said, the little girl who plays the young Mary Stuart Masterson was a good choice. I'm realizing, and perhaps it's the Courage, NH trailer that put me in this state of mind, that Masterson's hair is totally anachronistic in that picture. Sigh. Research, people, research!