- 18 hours ago
Ray Reardon, a recently divorced architect, feels lonely and disillusioned with love. One day, he meets the mysterious and beautiful Lena Mathers. She seems perfect—intelligent, charming, and devoted. Quickly, they fall into a passionate romance and marry.
At first, Ray feels like he’s finally found happiness. But soon, strange inconsistencies in Lena’s past begin to surface. Her stories about her childhood don’t match up, old acquaintances don’t recognize her, and her behavior grows more manipulative. Ray starts questioning whether Lena is who she claims to be.
As his suspicions deepen, Ray realizes that Lena has carefully constructed a false identity, hiding secrets that could destroy him. What began as a dream turns into a chilling nightmare, where love, lies, and obsession blur the line between reality and deception.
At first, Ray feels like he’s finally found happiness. But soon, strange inconsistencies in Lena’s past begin to surface. Her stories about her childhood don’t match up, old acquaintances don’t recognize her, and her behavior grows more manipulative. Ray starts questioning whether Lena is who she claims to be.
As his suspicions deepen, Ray realizes that Lena has carefully constructed a false identity, hiding secrets that could destroy him. What began as a dream turns into a chilling nightmare, where love, lies, and obsession blur the line between reality and deception.
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00:00Music
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00:26I'm so happy for him.
00:37I mean it.
00:47Hey, buddy, I have to tell you, that is a beautiful piece of ass.
00:51I can't believe the most gorgeous creature I've ever seen.
00:53She chose me.
00:54Does she, like, have any sisters, friends, fourth cousin, anything?
00:57She burned all the bridges when she left New York.
00:59Her only friends are...
01:00Yeah, they're already so happy together.
01:07By the way, I think our friend Larry is a little jealous of you.
01:10Yes, because you're basically disgusting.
01:13You have it all.
01:14I do.
01:16I haven't done so much since.
01:20She's strong, too.
01:21Did you see how she was whirling me around out there?
01:23Oh, sorry.
01:24Back at all.
01:24Oh, it's nothing.
01:25I just...
01:26Oh, you and Ray like the rough stuff.
01:28Why didn't you tell me?
01:29I've got some equipment I can lend you.
01:30No, no, no.
01:31I just...
01:32I'm a klutz.
01:32Don't.
01:33I...
01:33Oh, Jesus, look.
01:36My parents dancing together.
01:45Baby, let's never end up like that, okay?
01:47Okay.
01:47Yay!
01:47It's over.
01:48It's over.
01:48It's over.
01:48It's over.
01:49It's just beginning.
01:50Congratulations!
01:56Congratulations!
01:58Congratulations!
02:08Jesus.
02:10It's over.
02:12Over is just beginning.
02:14You're not kidding.
02:44Hey, Ray. I hear you got married.
02:46That's beautiful. That's gorgeous.
02:48Who is she?
02:50Well, her day...
02:52Oh, that's swell. The girl of your dreams, huh?
02:54Huh? Did you get her here?
02:56Here?
02:58At our booth.
03:00A most popular exhibit.
03:08Well, maybe I should...
03:10What, are you crazy? What, are you nuts?
03:12You don't want to find out you got the wrong one.
03:14Let's go to the funhouse.
03:16Ah!
03:18Ah!
03:20Ah!
03:22Ah!
03:24Ah!
03:25Ah!
03:26Ah!
03:27Ah!
03:28Ah!
03:29Ah!
03:30Ah!
03:31Ah!
03:32Ah!
03:33Ah!
03:34Ah!
03:41She looks just like you.
03:43Ah!
03:44Ah!
03:45Ah!
03:46Ah!
03:47Ah!
03:48Ah!
03:49Ah!
03:50Ah!
04:00Two years.
04:02Ah!
04:09I love you.
04:10Ah!
04:11I love you.
04:17I never thought...
04:22it would be possible for me to have such a normal life.
04:25My uncle used to say.
04:35Sissy? Aren't you sissy?
04:38Excuse me?
04:39Piru, Texas. I'm Cora's sister.
04:42I'm Lena Mathers, now Lena Reardon, from Dayton, Ohio.
04:48Oh. Sorry, your voice isn't quiet.
04:53Just for a minute, I thought...
04:56I'm very sorry.
04:59That's okay.
05:04It's so strange.
05:06This woman sissies something.
05:10It's twice that's happened.
05:13Once in New York and now here.
05:15She looks exactly like me.
05:17Maybe she's my double, my doppelganger.
05:21Unless she's the one who's really alive.
05:23I'm just...
05:24You don't feel alive?
05:25Of course I do.
05:27Only doesn't life seem sometimes like this very strange dream.
05:36I hope I don't wake up.
05:38Oh, come on.
05:42Come on.
05:43You're so bad.
05:47Yes, you are.
05:49Stop it.
05:51Oh, please.
05:54No, I can do it.
05:55I can.
05:56I can.
05:57Okay?
05:58I'll let you know.
05:59Um, one second.
06:00Oh, he's gonna talk to you later.
06:01All right, bye.
06:02Hi.
06:03Who's that?
06:04Debbie from my dance class.
06:05Um, stuff in her marriage is insane.
06:06Have I met Debbie?
06:07No.
06:08No.
06:09Because, well, she's great, but her husband is, it's an unusual combination.
06:11He's a psychopath and he's boring.
06:12No.
06:13No, because, well, she's great, but her husband is, it's an unusual combination.
06:17He's a psychopath and he's boring.
06:18That is unusual.
06:19So, how was your day?
06:20Any news on the Mora job?
06:21No, no news.
06:22Looks good.
06:23Good.
06:24Good.
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07:15Good.
07:16Good.
07:17so how's it feel it's like it's become a business or something you know a partnership
07:25well that's what marriage is well i don't like it you're not the only one
07:30so you have these weird jealousy suspicions oh yeah like what
07:39oh that's normal too usually just a way of driving yourself crazy
07:46but not always
07:48no no not always
07:53what do you say you're elaine's
07:57sometimes everything's a clue and what you think is paranoia is actually heightened awareness
08:07that's too bad not at all
08:11what's sauce for the goods
08:14i'm sorry i don't know what happened mr murray's never late oh no no don't even think about it
08:25i'm sorry
08:39it's just we've spoken on the phone so many times and i never had any idea that you were so
08:47attractive thank you but personally i prefer brains to beauty don't you
08:54no of course yes i'm yes no i'm uh yeah i'm i mean i didn't endure the four years at swarthmore in order
09:01to you went to swarthmore yes so did my wife really so what year were you
09:10swarthmore
09:11swarthmore 83
09:12well then uh did you know lena mathers
09:18i don't think so no but those years were crazy and between the frenzy for grades and jobs and
09:27you know then in the middle of all of that the president of the college sam shaw died of a heart attack
09:33as he was speaking to us
09:35i hardly remember my best friends
09:39oh mr murray
09:41it's beautiful
09:54we are you got the murray job
10:06that's great
10:08it is great this building is going to be like nothing else in the whole world
10:13i'm so proud of you
10:17by the way what year were you at swarthmore
10:2184 why this woman works for morris celine rogers
10:26she was there at the same time
10:28i don't remember her
10:31no she didn't remember you either
10:33remember sam shaw
10:36who
10:40died of a heart attack
10:42oh he was a classmate
10:47god he died of a heart attack
10:49scary isn't it
10:52someone my age
10:54bad things can just
10:56come out of nowhere
10:58saddened
11:05saddened
11:06saddened
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11:25saddened
12:26Can I have to find something?
12:33Is your real name Sissy?
12:36What?
12:37You heard me.
12:40You mean am I really this other woman who looks like me?
12:42Yeah.
12:44Like a sci-fi thing we've been switched or something.
12:46Not like sci-fi, like real, like are you really?
12:52I don't know, Ray. I never studied philosophy.
12:55Questions like that make my head hurt.
12:56I forgot to have Sally go to the bank. I need some cash.
13:15No problem.
13:16Now you tell Mr. Mura he can't keep you east long or I'll die of loneliness.
13:31I will. Bye-bye.
13:33Ray, kiss me.
13:37I love you too.
13:49We welcome you back to WTXE right here in Piru, Texas, home of the Sawn Off Shotgun.
14:08If you don't like our music, leave town.
14:12So you're at the end of your wits, at the end of your road.
14:18You just can't fix everything that's blue.
14:22You gotta turn it loose, babe.
14:27Hey, just let it ride.
14:33Cause it ain't about pride now.
14:36It ain't about pride now.
14:38It ain't about pride.
14:40I'm the executor of a very large estate.
14:42I'm trying to find someone who used to live here.
14:44Do you recognize her?
14:46First name, her nickname is Sissy.
14:48Never seen her.
14:52The other side of loneliness
14:57The other side of the blue
15:02There really is a place like this
15:08Where the sun is gonna shine for you
15:13You feel that old restlessness
15:17And your tears have all been cried
15:22And you find your way over there
15:28Yeah, you make it to the other side
15:32There you go.
15:37On stage?
15:38Yeah.
15:39Playing speculation or what?
15:41You think people are put on earth for the sole purpose
15:55Drive other people crazy?
15:57Hmm?
15:59My father had my mom put away
16:01And he's the one made a loser of marbles
16:02Do you know her?
16:07Sissy
16:08Hope she's nothing to you
16:11She's my wife
16:14Figures
16:16She run off and leave you?
16:18No
16:19I don't give her time
16:22Is that what she did to you?
16:28She did things to me I can't even pronounce
16:30Sorry
16:33I'll give her this, though
16:35She always had it in her mind
16:38To marry somebody rich
16:39Gotta go work
16:55What's her name?
17:02Huh?
17:03Her real name?
17:04You don't know
17:05They almost need her
17:10She still have family here?
17:16You know
17:16Most folks find this stuff out beforehand
17:20Forehand
17:20Now
17:22Whooped that road there
17:24Right on Branch
17:27Left on Hickory
17:28It's third house
17:31Another high from Buddy
17:35Here
17:36Uh
17:36Is that alright
17:43Yeah
17:45I'm not really
17:46Really
17:46Can get me
17:47To be honest
17:48But look
17:48Hey
17:50Yeah
17:51Guess
17:52Okay
17:53Thanks
17:53Look
17:54Really
17:55If you're
17:56I'mDEN
17:56This time
17:57You can get me
17:58I want
18:01I want
18:02To be honest
18:03I want
18:04My
18:05Mrs. Sater?
18:07Yes.
18:08Oh, my God, it's Ray!
18:11Yes, ma'am.
18:12Is everything okay?
18:15Yes.
18:16Come here. Come here, quickly.
18:19Is it safe for you to be here?
18:22Safe?
18:23With your job.
18:26I'm sorry, I'm a misunderstanding.
18:28Oh, you don't have to pretend. Sissy wrote us all about it.
18:33Hey!
18:35What do you want?
18:40Come see for yourself.
18:44You got any recent pictures of Tina?
18:47I do, actually, yes.
18:50Well, I'll be. Put her there, Ray.
18:53It's good to finally meet you.
18:54Could you go and get us some coffee, hon?
18:56Surprise!
19:13Surprise!
19:14Surprise!
19:26I'm glad it's over.
19:29Dad.
19:32Come see the baby.
19:35I'll get this.
19:40Y'all need any help out there?
19:42No, thanks.
19:44I'm in the CIA.
19:48I had to give them some reason why they couldn't visit.
19:51What about that story your mother beating you, your father watching?
19:55Not true.
19:57There's lots of different kinds of abuse within a family.
20:01Right, okay.
20:02But if the things that you tell me aren't true,
20:06then what is true, Lena?
20:08Who are you?
20:09I'm your wife.
20:14I called her Sissy because we wanted to have another child, a boy.
20:28Of course, we never did.
20:30But Sissy was always so, so beautiful that it didn't really matter.
20:36Still, when she wrote me that she was...
20:39It wrote us.
20:42Of course.
20:42That goes without saying.
20:44Well, then say it.
20:45She wrote us.
20:47She was changing her name.
20:49Well, naturally, I was insulted.
20:51We both were.
20:52But it was kind of a woman's lib thing.
20:56Women change their name for a man when they get married,
20:59so why not change it for their own sakes?
21:02But she'll always be Sissy to us.
21:06Your parents seem to look perfectly to some people.
21:19Yep.
21:21Why'd you hide them from me?
21:24They're stuck.
21:26In Texas, in poverty.
21:29Can't you feel it?
21:30They were this weight dragging me down.
21:31If I'd have stayed there, I would have married that guy,
21:33but I would have had his kids.
21:36I would have drank beer every night till I got really fat, ugly, and bored.
21:41So I invented myself.
21:43I made up Lena Mathers, and I became her.
21:47They say you replace every molecule in your body every seven years.
21:51I changed my name eight years ago.
21:52No more Thelma Sneader.
21:57Aren't you going to give me credit for it?
22:00Doesn't it seem at least brave that I just became this completely different person?
22:04It makes me look at you in a completely different way.
22:08Me or you?
22:10Isn't the real question, who are you?
22:13Are you really Ray Reardon, or is that the name your parents hung on you?
22:16Oh, you've always been a good boy.
22:18You've gone along with who Ray was supposed to be,
22:19done what Ray was supposed to do.
22:22But who are you?
22:23Where are you really from?
22:24What do you really want?
22:25I'm tired, and I want to go to bed.
22:38I tried to tell you so many times, lying here like this.
22:58I'd say to myself,
23:06now, Lena, tell him.
23:09I wish you had.
23:14I was afraid.
23:19If you knew the real me,
23:21that I'd lose you.
23:25You're not divorcing me.
23:43I'd like to send them money every month.
23:45Sure.
23:46We're okay.
23:49Look at me.
23:49Tell me it's the truth.
23:58You know it is.
24:04No matter who you were,
24:05and no matter who you are,
24:06and no matter who you will be,
24:08I'm going to love you.
24:09From now on, better than ever.
24:30I love you.
24:31You're late, Ray.
24:40The show's already started.
24:43Ray!
24:44Ray, my boy!
24:46You're looking grand!
24:48You like these?
24:50Huh?
24:50And this?
24:52Tell me, Ray.
24:54Tell me true.
24:56Am I the girl of your dreams?
24:58I don't know.
25:00Actually.
25:01Of course not!
25:03Look!
25:03Lookie here!
25:05Some guys look at the eyes!
25:09Some guys look at the thighs!
25:13I just look at the purse.
25:14How about that?
25:16You like it, Ray?
25:17Sure you do!
25:20Recognize her yet, huh?
25:21And now, the moment we've all been waiting for,
25:25the moment which will determine Ray Redden's fate,
25:29here she is, folks!
25:40And last but not least, it's Baby Bob!
25:44Yeah!
25:45For those of you who don't remember Bob Baby
25:47from last year's Cutie Pie contest,
25:49well, he wasn't born yet.
25:51Okay, and now, it's Tina, cute as ever!
25:54Yeah, and Lena, cuter than ever.
25:58That's right.
25:58All right, come on now, that's it.
25:59Don't save it, baby.
26:00Feel the burn.
26:01Atta girl.
26:02Okay, and...
26:04Pinhead Ray!
26:04That's right, Pinhead Ray with the perfect life!
26:07He's got the perfect wife, the perfect family.
26:08Why, he's got everything a man could possibly want,
26:10except a Wednesday afternoon golf game.
26:12And, well, a cute young mistress,
26:14but never mind that now.
26:15He doesn't have time for any of these things.
26:16Stop it, Norman, that's not funny.
26:17Exactly my point.
26:19According to the East German Judge Lena,
26:20it's not funny.
26:21So now we come to our legal beagle, Elaine,
26:23and her client, Bernardo, from West Side Story,
26:25and a post.
26:28That is a great post, buddy.
26:29And now, let's turn the camera on.
26:31This guy, yes, this is a stupid guy.
26:35This is a guy who can't make a living.
26:36This is...
26:37This is...
26:38Yeah.
26:39You're a pain in the ass.
26:40Thank you, Ray.
26:41This is a guy who's going anywhere fast.
26:43This is...
26:44This is a...
26:46A pain in the ass again.
26:48Thank you, Ray.
26:49Yes.
26:49Somebody stop him.
26:49A pain in the ass.
26:51Stop me?
26:51I can't be stopped.
26:52That's enough.
26:53Somebody shoot the camera.
26:54One more.
26:55Christ's sake.
26:57Tell me Christ.
26:59Hey, where's the beer?
26:59So, uh, how's everything?
27:05Since we talked this morning?
27:06Come on.
27:08No, come on.
27:09I haven't seen Lena in a while.
27:10She looks great.
27:11You're right.
27:12She looks great.
27:12Four months after giving birth,
27:14she looks really great.
27:15Very, very great.
27:16And I'll be honest with you.
27:17Yes.
27:19No, I won't, actually.
27:20I changed my mind,
27:21and I will not be honest,
27:22because, uh,
27:23it's just that I, uh,
27:25I think I saw somewhere
27:26where, for them,
27:27giving birth is like having an affair.
27:29That's what I mean.
27:29It gives him a glow.
27:31A glow, yes.
27:32So she's alive again
27:33in a whole new way,
27:34and that's beautiful,
27:35if so happens.
27:36You, by the way,
27:37can kiss my ass,
27:38and that'll make us both happy.
27:40It's the strangest thing.
27:41See for yourself.
27:44Well, Bernardo?
27:46Well, he doesn't look like him to me.
27:48No, I don't.
27:48I rest my case.
27:49He doesn't look like
27:50either of his parents.
27:51I think he was switched
27:52in the hospital.
27:53Oh, I'm sorry.
27:55Is that what happened?
27:56Did some drunken nurse
27:57switch you?
28:01There you go.
28:04Good night.
28:06Good night.
28:07Good night.
28:08Good night, sweetie.
28:09Oh, I told you I could.
28:27Of course I want to.
28:29It's just...
28:32You just have to be patient.
28:37Yeah?
28:38Mm-hmm.
28:41I absolutely guarantee it.
28:47Yeah, okay.
28:51Okay.
28:54Bye.
28:55Bye.
29:02Debbie.
29:05She wants me to go see
29:06those male strippers.
29:10That should be fun.
29:15Could you try her again, please?
29:18I just did, sir.
29:21Keep trying her every ten minutes
29:22until you reach her.
29:26Yes, sir, but it's Wednesday.
29:28I have that funeral tomorrow,
29:29so I'm leaving early.
29:33Just keep trying, please,
29:34until you go.
29:36Yes, sir, of course.
29:48I love these late dinners
29:49after the kids are asleep.
29:51You have a bruise on your leg.
29:54Christ.
29:55Where'd you get it?
29:57My shrink says I should...
29:59Why do I always have to go through this?
30:00I'm clumsy,
30:02I bruise easily,
30:02and I don't want to talk about it
30:03every time I bump into a chair.
30:05Did you cook this?
30:08No, it's takeout.
30:09Why didn't you cook?
30:10What?
30:11Why didn't you cook?
30:13Because cooking gets boring.
30:14Why didn't you cook?
30:15I work all day.
30:18What's wrong with you?
30:19What's wrong with you?
30:19I hope you enjoy these psychotic episodes.
30:41So you go to his place?
30:42Excuse me?
30:43You fuck him at his place?
30:46What are you talking about?
30:47What's wrong with you?
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