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• Crime/detective
• Drama

• 1984
• Brian De Palma
• 109 mins
• 18

Summary

Erotic thriller starring Craig Wasson and Melanie Griffith. An out-of-work actor is offered the chance to house sit a luxury apartment. When he starts spying on an alluring female neigbour, he is drawn into a depraved and dangerous world.

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A star rating of 4 out of 5.

Alan Jones

No one is better at apeing Alfred Hitchcock than director Brian De Palma and in this engrossingly sly shocker he combines the Master of Suspense's predilection for warped 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 a murder and seeking clues as 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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6.8/10

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Cast

rolenameJake ScullyCraig WassonHolly BodyMelanie GriffithSam BouchardGregg HenryGloria RevelleDeborah SheltonJim McCleanGuy BoydRubinDennis FranzDrama teacherDavid HaskellKimberlyRebecca StanleyCorsoAl IsraelVideo salesmanDouglas WarhitDouglasB J JonesFrankRuss Marin

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rolenameDirectorBrian De Palma

Details

Theatrical distributor

Columbia-Emi-Warner Dists Ltd

Released on

1984-11-12

Languages

English

Guidance

Contains violence, swearing, sex scenes and nudity.

Available on

video, DVD and Blu-ray

Formats

Colour

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