Body Double (1984)

Body Double (1984) (Blu-Ray) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
Golden Globes
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
English ( DTS 5.1 )
English ( DTS-HD Master Audio )
French ( DTS-HD Master Audio )
French ( Mono )
French ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
France ( Blu-Ray/Region A/B/C )

Running Time:
114 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.85:1)

Special Features:
Featurette
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 1984 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Brian De Palma

Written By:
Robert J. Avrech
Brian De Palma

Actors:
Craig Wasson ..... Jake Scully
Melanie Griffith ..... Holly Body
Gregg Henry ..... Sam Bouchard
Deborah Shelton ..... Gloria Revelle
Guy Boyd ..... Det. Jim McLean
Dennis Franz ..... Rubin the Director
David Haskell ..... Will the Drama Teacher
Rebecca Stanley ..... Kimberly Hess
Al Israel ..... Corso the Director
Douglas Warhit ..... Video Salesman
B.J. Jones ..... Douglas
Russ Marin ..... Frank
Lane Davies ..... Billy
Barbara Crampton ..... Carol
Larry Flash Jenkins ..... Assistant Director

Synopsis:

Brian De Palma (Carrie, Scarface) invites you to witness a seduction... a mystery... a murder. It's BODY DOUBLE -- a spine-tingling look at voyeurism and sexuality from the modern master of suspense. Jake Scully (Craig Wasson), an unemployed actor, is asked to house-sit at a luxurious hillside apartment. As a bonus, the home offers Jake a telescopic peek into the bedroom of Gloria Revelle (Deborah Shelton), who performs an arousing striptease. When Jake discovers another man is also spying on Gloria, he begins an obsessive surveillance of her. Soon a grisly murder leads him into the world of X-rated film where he meets sexy porn queen Holly Body (Melanie Griffith), who is a key to the crime. De Palma has created a gripping adult thriller of eroticism and horror! Presented in high definition and including four illuminating special features: The Seduction, The Setup, The Mystery and The Controversy, BODY DOUBLE is a stylish noir thriller, Hitchcockian in inspiration, total De Palma in execution.

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.

After unemployed actor Jake Scully finds his girlfriend in bed with another man, he moves out and accepts an offer from fellow struggling actor Sam Bouchard to house-sit for a few weeks. Apart from getting to live in a swank and ultramodern house he also get to watch a sexy neighbor, Gloria Revelle, who does a sexy dance in front of her window every night at exactly the same time. He becomes interested in the girl, infatuated even, following her around and eventually meeting her. She also has another admirer however and while watching her one night through his telescope, Jake sees her murdered by this other man. The police are skeptical about what he claims to have seen, but the case takes an even stranger twist when, while watching adult TV, he sees a porn star do the exact same dance he had watched for all those nights. He soon realizes he has been an unwitting accomplice in a complex plot.

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