Twinsters (2015)
Documentary film.
Directed by Samantha Futermen.
Tells story of the director, Samantha, who was adopted, discovering that she has a twin sister.
Born in South Korea, November 19, 1987.
Samantha lives in Los Angeles, California. She is an actress and a youtuber. She has two brothers.
Acts in a youtube video punching a guys crotch. Someone in France saw the video and told Anais about it.
Anais once adopted, lived in France and is now in London. She is an only child.
Anais messages Sam over facebook and they Skype. They believe that they are twins as they look identical and they were born in the same place on the same day. They become very close.
A doctor is willing to give the girls a DNA test.
Sam goes to London to meet Anais. Their individual families meet as well.
DNA results reveal that they are identical twin sisters.
Anais always felt lonely growing up and was bullied for being adopted.
Anais comes to USA to visit Sam.
Sam and Anais go to South Korea, their “mother land”
They visit their adoption agencies and meet their foster mothers. (each different) They claim they didn’t know they had a twin.
Birth mother denies having kids and twins.
Their story is on the news. They attend an adoption conference.
The girls are not mad that they were separated.
They send a letter to their birth mother.
This film made me think of the film Three Identical Strangers.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7664504/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1
Where triplets were deliberately separated at birth as part of a nature vs. nurture experiment.
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