Body Double

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1984-10-26

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

114 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.7 (18384 Reviews)

Director:

Brian De Palma

Genres:

Crime Drama Mystery

Cast:

Craig Wasson Melanie Griffith Gregg Henry Deborah Shelton

Writer:

Robert J. Avrech (screenplay)

Brian De Palma (screenplay)

Brian De Palma (story)

Fullplot:

Jake Scully comes home to find his girlfriend with another man and has to find a new place. In between his acting workshops and his job in a vampire B-movie, he scans the paper looking for anything. He happens to meet Sam Bouchard, a fellow actor who needs a house sitter. Both are pleased with the arrangement that will have Jake staying in the house and for a sweetener, Sam shows him his favorite neighbor, a well-built woman who strips with her window open each night. Jake becomes obsessed with meeting her and is able to help recover her purse from a thief, but shows his own phobia, he is incapacitated by claustrophobia when the thief runs through a tunnel. When Jake witnesses a murder, he finds out that the police love to pin crimes on peeping Toms. Jake discovers that here are just too many coincidences but must hunt them down himself without the police.

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