Silent Twins

The Silent Twins is a 2022 internationally co-produced biographical drama film about the twin sisters, June and Jennifer Gibbons, who were institutionalized at Broadmoor Hospital following years of silence and teenage rebellion. It was directed by Agnieszka Smoczyńska from a screenplay by Andrea Seigel, who adapted the book of the same name by Marjorie Wallace. The film stars Letitia Wright, Tamara Lawrance, Nadine Marshall, Treva Etienne, Michael Smiley, and Jodhi May. The Silent Twins had its world premiere at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival, under the Un Certain Regard section, on May 24, 2022, was released in the United States on September 16, 2022, by Focus Features, and was released in the United Kingdom on December 9, 2022, by Universal Pictures. Plot Feeling isolated from their unwelcoming community, June and Jennifer Gibbons turn inward and reject communication with everyone but each other, retreating into a fantasy world of artistic inspiration and adolescent desires. After a spree of vandalism inspired by an American teenager they both idolize, the girls are summarily sentenced to Broadmoor Hospital, an infamous psychiatric hospital, where they face the choice to separate and survive or die together. Cast Letitia Wright as June Gibbons Leah Mondesir-Simmonds as young June Gibbons Tamara Lawrance as Jennifer Gibbons Eva-Arianna Baxter as young Jennifer Gibbons Nadine Marshall as Gloria Gibbons Treva Etienne as Aubrey Gibbons Michael Smiley as Tim Thomas Jodhi May as Marjorie Wallace Jack Bandeira as Wayne Kennedy Kinga Preis as Sister Nowak Amarah-Jae St. Aubyn as Greta Gibbons Tony Richardson as Dr. John Rees Declan Joyce as George Kennedy