

In a movie all about family, it’s the fractious relationship of Sonny (James Caan) and tragic hero Michael (Al Pacino) that sets things into motion. The tunes and wrecked cars pile up in this SNL sketch turned comedy film gold, starring Dan Aykroyd and and the late John Belushi as two musicians on a mission from God to save their childhood orphanage. Tom Hardy and Joel Edgerton play estranged siblings who come to terms with life inside and outside the ring after fate positions them to fight each other in a big MMA bout.īrotherhood is a recurring motif in Wes Anderson movies ( Bottle Rocket, The Darjeeling Limited), best seen through Chas and Richie in familial comedy epic, The Royal Tenenbaums. Reilly) forced together in the same house learn to put aside their differences in the pursuit of more room for activities.

Playing somewhat against type, Matt Damon is a shy loser and Greg Kinnear is a theatrical Lothario - the two halves together make up one cojoined twin this Farrelly brothers comedy. drama.Īrnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito play two bros separated at birth and incredibly this isn’t the weirdest movie the Arnie/Danny alliance had conceived.ĭerided by critics but obviously an audience cult favorite, two lowly brothers (Sean Patrick Flanery, Norman Reedus) hit the big time when the mob and FBI descend on Boston. as Tre) in John Singleton’s groundbreaking L.A. Ricky and Doughboy (Morris Chestnut and Ice Cube, along with Cuba Gooding, Jr. In another featured dual role, Nicolas Cage plays screenwriter Charlie Kaufman, suffering artiste, and his twin (completely made-up) brother, also a screenwriter of marginal talent but greater success. Thor and Loki’s fraternal squabbling is the most destructive, reaching from Valhalla to our personal pale blue dot, and spilling across several movies in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. In a dual role, Tom Hardy plays real-life gangsters Reggie and Ronnie Kray (one an ambitious businessman, the other bloodthirsty and decadent) who dominated London in the 1950s and 1960s.
