Three Identical Strangers

Three Identical Strangers is a 2018 documentary film, directed by Tim Wardle, about the lives of Edward Galland, David Kellman, and Robert Shafran, a set of identical-triplet brothers adopted as infants by separate families.

Combining archival footage, re-enacted scenes, and present-day interviews, it recounts how the brothers discovered one another by chance in New York in 1980 at age 19, their public and private lives in the years that followed, and their eventual discovery that their adoption had been part of an undisclosed scientific "nature versus nurture" study of the development of genetically identical siblings raised in differing socioeconomic circumstances.

[7] The film describes how Robert Shafran discovered he had a twin brother after he arrived on the campus of a New York community college in 1980 and was constantly greeted by students and staff who incorrectly recognized him as Eddy Galland.

The brothers found themselves to be alike in many ways beyond their appearance: they had the same taste in food, smoked the same brand of cigarettes, all wrestled in high school, and all had shown signs of separation anxiety as children.

[13] Raw TV, Film4 Productions, and Sidney Kimmel Entertainment are jointly developing a dramatic feature film based on Three Identical Strangers, with director Tim Wardle serving as an executive producer on the project.