Body Double

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Body Double

film by De Palma [1984]

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Brian De Palma
The 1980s and ’90s
The director then made Body Double (1984), about a young actor (Craig Wasson) who thinks he has witnessed a murder through his telescope—yet another of De Palma’s homages to Hitchcock’s Rear Window. The film received largely negative reviews—especially for a sequence in which a woman is killed with a…
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The director then made Body Double (1984), about a young actor (Craig Wasson) who thinks he has witnessed a murder through his telescope—yet another of De Palma’s homages to Hitchcock’s Rear Window. The film received largely negative reviews—especially for a sequence in which a woman is killed with a…
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Melanie Griffith
Body Double, Something Wild, and Working Girl
…in Brian de Palma’s mystery Body Double (1984), in which she played an adult-film star; Jonathan Demme’s romantic comedy Something Wild (1986), which became a cult classic; and Mike Figgis’s Stormy Monday (1988), a drama that starred Tommy Lee Jones as a Texas politician and Griffith as his mistress.
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…in Brian de Palma’s mystery Body Double (1984), in which she played an adult-film star; Jonathan Demme’s romantic comedy Something Wild (1986), which became a cult classic; and Mike Figgis’s Stormy Monday (1988), a drama that starred Tommy Lee Jones as a Texas politician and Griffith as his mistress.
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