Bobby Shafran grew up in upstate New York and went to a local community college, only to be completely confused his first day by how well-known he seemed to be. Turns out he was a dead ringer for a guy named Eddie Galland who had dropped out the previous year. The two met, compared backstories, and discovered that they were twins separated at birth and adopted into two different families. The local news picked up the story as a feel-good piece and it made its way through the wire to David Kellman, living in Long Island, who picked up the paper and saw his own face in duplicate. The three young men met, instantly connected, and began building their lives around one another. Their respective families hit the roof and initiated proceedings to sue the adoption agency for failing to disclose that the boys were a matched set but were stonewalled. It took a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist to break open the real story.
I don't want to spoil it for anyone because the movie does go to some lengths to tease this out. I don't agree with this choice, I think it weakens the ending, but that's me. It's currently streaming on Tubi with ads.
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