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Body Double
1984
An unemployed young actor watches a beautiful woman performing a striptease in front of her bedroom window every night. Then suddenly one night he witnesses her murder. His avenging instincts eventually lead him into the world of blue movies. 'Frankie Goes To Hollywood' provide musical heat. Read more
| Starring | Craig Wasson, Deborah Shelton, Melanie Griffith, Gregg Henry |
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| Director | Brian De Palma |
| Genres | Drama |
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Body Double
An unemployed young actor watches a beautiful woman performing a striptease in front of her bedroom window every night. Then suddenly one night he witnesses her murder. His avenging instincts eventually lead him into the world of blue movies. 'Frankie Goes To Hollywood' provide musical heat.
| Starring | Craig Wasson, Deborah Shelton, Melanie Griffith, Gregg Henry |
|---|---|
| Director | Brian De Palma |
| Studio | UCA |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 49 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Drama |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Dubbed | French, German, Italian, Spanish |
| Subtitles | DVD: Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish |
| Released | DVD: 13 Oct 2003 Production year: 1984 |
| Format | DVD |
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Critics' reviews (3)
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No one is better at apeing Alfred Hitchcock than director Brian De Palma and in this engrossingly sly shocker he combines the master's predilection for kinky storytelling with his own engaging high style and taste for designer violence. Little does B-movie horror actor Craig Wasson know when he spies on Deborah Shelton undressing in her Hollywood home that it will lead him to witnessing murder and seeking clues to who perpetrated such a shocking crime in Tinseltown's sex industry. Tense, deliciously sleazy and blackly comic — and sporting a gorgeous Pino Donaggio score — De Palma's Rear Window update is his most outrageous and voyeuristic suspense film to date.
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De Palma actually has the gall to combine the plots from both Vertigo and Rear Window in one big voyeur-fest and pull... read more on Time Out
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1 out of 1 person found this review helpful
good fun
Bet Melanie Griffith wishes she hadn't done the nude scenes in this movie. Contains a version of the pop video "Relax" with Frankie goes to Hollywood. Good fun, not many surprises, and a strange ending
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1 out of 1 person found this review helpful
Strange brew
Body Double is a curious, jarring mix of "Rear Window"-style Hitchcockian suspense thriller, semi-comedic soft porn flick with an ugly drill murder scene. The result while reasonably watchable leaves one bewildered.
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De Palma’s Way
- 10 Mar 2008
Brian De Palma is in hot water. Again. For a director who often seems more interested in form than content and who has devoted the bulk of his career to making mainstream entertainment for the Hollywood studios, it's surprising how regularly he upsets people. Even his fans have a love-hate relationship with this prodigiously gifted but perverse and erratic talent. Feminists picketed Dressed to Kill and Cuban refugees weren't flattered by Scarface either. But that's nothing on the US reaction... Read more
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