“Three Identical Strangers,” (2018) July 27, 2018, theater. This deeply affecting documentary chronicles the story behind a story. In 1980, three adopted young men, all from Jewish families, accidentally discovered that they were triplets, separated and adopted by three very different families, at birth. What follows is their joyous reunion, their early acclaim and momentary celebrity, and the questions that then flowed from this reunion Why were they separated?. Why was information withheld from their adoptive parents as well as from the children themselves?. What was the meaning of strange, regular intrusions into their lives and families as children and adolescents?. What are the rights of researchers vs ‘subjects?’. The story that opens up deep questions regarding institutional behavior, professional ethics, science vs ethics, and the limits of the nature vs nurture conundrum. It challenges the rights of the powerful to treat others as ‘things’ for study, as lab rats. It is especially significant that this could happen in the post-Holocaust environment of New York within the Jewish community and its charitable institutions. It shook me deeply in many ways, not least as an adoptive parent who struggles with some of the issues presented in the film, although these will also fit many bio-parent/child cases as well. See this one.