Supporting characters include Penny's pimp, a mildly sleazy man wearing the expected polyester and a fuzzy caterpillar mustache. Lesley Ann Warren plays the twins' mother, a nun who rejected them years ago because she thought they were the devil's offspring. The peephole to 7B at the Imperial Hotel looks like a confession box. For first-time directors, the Polish brothers have taken a tabloid topic of Siamese twins and turned it into a mature look at human companionship and sibling bond. Even though Blake and Francis are physically joined, both yearn for their own personalities and their own lives separate from each other.
Many siblings can relate to that.
However, this story belongs to Penny. Her thoughts and actions are the most telling about what society decides is normal or abominable. If the directors wanted us to humanize the conjoined twins, they undermined their honesty by scripting a flaming gay photographer who hosts a Halloween party at which people assume Blake and Francis are in costume. But freshman filmmakers can get away with that. Memphis Flyer .