Body Double Page #5

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


An Indian killed Gloria Revelle.

I'm not going to hold you, Scully.

I got witnesses to back up your story.

But I want you to think

real hard about this.

As far as I'm concerned,

you're the real reason

Gloria Revelle got murdered.

If you hadn't have been

so busy getting off by peeping on her,

if you'd have called

the police about the Indian,

Gloria Revelle would still be alive.

Oh, yeah.

Ooh.

Oh, yeah.

Ooh... oh, yeah.

Ooh!

So, Linda,

we believe that you have your own

production company.

Yes. Linda Shaw Enterprises.

What are some of those enterprises?

We have a film Deep Ghost,

The Mating Game.

The Mating Game?

One Night At A Time.

One Night At A Time. Yes.

You have a film

opening this Friday

at the P*ssy Flick Theater?

What's the title?

Bold Obsession.

Bold Obsession. Tell us, Linda,

what is your bold obsession?

That script was written especially for me,

because I'm a bit of an expositionist.

Do you mean exhibitionist?

Exhibitionist. Yeah, I'm sure.

I get excited when I know they're watching.

Of course they're watching.

I'm hot.

What happens when you get hot?

Makes me want to come.

While you're coming, we'll watch this clip.

Five minutes, Miss Body.

I'm ready.

No.

We've got five minutes.

Oh.

Danny, where are you?

We need you on the set.

Come on. Let's go.

Holly Does Hollywood.

The X Cinema,

L.A.'s classiest X-rated movie house.

This week see the film

everyone's talking about...

Holly Does Hollywood.

And does it well.

Screw magazine says...

Oh, I think I'm getting it!

In the words of Eros magazine...

Hustler magazine gives it...

Holly Does Hollywood.

Now playing at the X Cinema.

And for you home viewers,

pick it up at Tower Records

all-night video sale.

Excuse me.

Do you have Holly Does Hollywood?

Yeah, we do.

It's in our adult section.

Follow me.

On VHS?

Yeah, VHS. Whatever you want.

1/2 inch, 3/4, Beta.

This what you're talking about?

That's it.

Hello. Adult Blue Films.

Are you the company that distributes

Holly Does Hollywood?

Yes.

I'm not some f***ing stunt cock.

I'm an a actor.

You'll have to wait like everybody else.

I've been waiting an hour.

Do you know how many pictures

I've made with Holly?

A lot, I'm sure.

I got a reputation in this business.

If you want to audition,

sit down!

Sorry.

That's okay. How late are

the auditions going today?

Probably past 6:
00.

Thank you.

You're welcome. Bye.

Mr. Corso, Jake Scully.

Pleasure to meet you.

Stand over there.

You ready?

Yeah.

Go ahead.

I, uh...

I like to watch.

"Makes you hot, doesn't it?"

Yeah.

"Makes me hot, too.

"Real hot.

"Come over here.

I'll show you how hot."

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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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