Body Double
1984 · Movie · 110 min. · United States
Jake 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 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, Frank 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.
Direction Brian De Palma
Cast Craig Wasson · Melanie Griffith · Gregg Henry · Deborah Shelton · Dennis Franz · Guy Boyd · David Haskell · Rebecca Stanley · Barbara Crampton · Al Israel · Russ Marin · Lane Davies · Douglas Warhit · Monte Landis · Larry Flash Jenkins · Mindi Miller · Denise Loveday · Gela Nash · Holly Johnson
Soundtrack Pino Donaggio · Frankie Goes to Hollywood
Screenplay Robert J. Avrech · Brian De Palma
Cinematography Stephen H. Burum
Original title Body Double
6.4
5K votes (FilmAffinity)
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