Body Double Page #3

Synopsis: 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.
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Director(s): Brian De Palma
Production: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
  Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 1 win & 3 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.8
Metacritic:
69
Rotten Tomatoes:
78%
R
Year:
1984
114 min
1,210 Views


I'm not claustrophobic.

What happened? Stage fright?

It never happened before.

It'll never happen again.

Good-bye. I've got to work.

You promised me another chance.

Hey, I lied.

Get out of here!

You can't yell at me on my set.

You can't lie to me.

Beat it! Get out the door!

He's the boss.

It's not fair.

I know it isn't.

Why's everybody standing around?

Back to work.

Just like clockwork.

Ooh. There she goes.

Excuse me.

Could you move, please?

Please! I got to go. Thank you.

Thank you.

Good morning, ma'am.

Thank you.

I must see you.

When did you call?

I'm never home till after 7:00.

He hit me again.

I've got to talk to someone.

Today.

The Beach Terrace Motel?

I'll wear something special.

You'll see.

Yeah.

Okay. Bye.

Security, please.

This is security.

Please come over to Bellini's.

I think we have a problem.

Excuse me. May I...

May I help you?

No, thank you.

Did you see that guy?

It's the cream Mercedes.

Thank you.

Thank you, ma'am.

Can I have my car?

Yes.

As soon as possible. Thank you.

Straight towards the beach.

Thank you.

Can you get all that?

I got it.

Tell me we'll have an elevator. Promise.

Hello.

Oh?

Yes.

You've got to come.

I need to talk to you.

I got to talk to someone.

I need you.

Excuse me.

Someone's following you.

I know.

Oh, it's not me.

Hey! Hey!

Are you all right?

He got away.

You got the purse.

You better check. He got something.

He took something.

What's the matter?

I'm just a little out of breath.

Can you...

take me out of here?

Sure.

Here.

Thank you.

All right. Thank you.

Thank you.

I feel much better now. I'm fine.

I saw you back there and at the hotel.

You've been following me,

haven't you?

Yeah.

Why?

Did my husband hire you?

No. Um...

I'm...

What?

No.

Yes.

No.

I can't.

I can't do this.

Not here.

Hello, Gloria.

How are you?

Maybe you remember me. This is Jake.

I'm the guy that almost f***ed you

at the beach today.

Oh, no. That's terrible.

Uh...

Hi, Gloria.

Hello.

How you doing?

Hey, Sam. How's everything?

Great, great. Everything okay there?

Yeah. No problems.

How's our favorite neighbor?

Still with the midnight shows?

Jake?

Uh-huh.

You sound a little preoccupied.

Well, I just called to see

how things were going. Any messages for me?

Hello. Jake? Are you there?

Yeah. I'm here. No... I'm sorry, Sam.

There are no messages.

Sorry.

Oh, well. Got to run. I'll be in touch.

Okay.

Oh, my God.

Oh, sh*t.

If you'd like to make a call,

please hang up...

Hurry, hurry.

Hello.

Look out!

He's right behind you! Look out!

Oh, my God.

God!

Hey!

Stop!

You guys! Stop!

Hey!

Stop!

What do you want?

There's a woman being killed up here.

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Robert J. Avrech

Robert J. Avrech is an American screenwriter whose works include the 1984 film Body Double (with Brian De Palma) and A Stranger Among Us (1992). He won an Emmy Award for his screenplay The Devil's Arithmetic, based on the young adult novel by Jane Yolen.He is also the author of the children's novel The Hebrew Kid and the Apache Maiden, and the memoir How I Married Karen, and publishes personal and political writings on his blog, Seraphic Press. From 2009 through mid-2012, he was a writer for Breitbart News. more…

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