Bizarrely, this incredible true story has many similarities to the overall plot and themes of the horror film Raising Cain (1992) as well as the X-Files episode Eve (1993).
David, Eddy, and Bobby meet up in 1980. That same year, Stephen King released two excerpts from his book Firestarter, fully released the following year. That book features a shady organization performing a study that was never released as well as monitoring the development of a child. The triplets eventually learned that these things happened to them in reality.
Debuted at the Sundance Film Festival in early 2018.
Three Identical Strangers was part of The Hot Docs festival's 25th anniversary line up in Toronto. Both screenings of Three Identical Strangers at the festival were sold out.