Duplex
Duplex film poster
Directed by	Danny DeVito
Produced by	Drew Barrymore Stuart Cornfeld Ben Stiller
Written by	Larry Doyle
Starring	Ben Stiller Drew Barrymore Eileen Essell
Distributed by	Miramax Films
Release date(s)	September 26, 2003
Running time	89 minutes
Language	English
Budget	~ US$40,000,000
IMDb profile

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The film was called Our House for its UK release.

Cast

• Ben Stiller – Alex Rose
• Drew Barrymore – Nancy Kendricks
• Eileen Essell – Mrs. Connelly
• Robert Wisdom – Officer Dan
• Danny DeVito – Narrator (voice)

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Plot

Alex Rose and Nancy Kendricks are a young couple who are looking for a perfect home. They finally settle for a duplex in Brooklyn, unaware that an old lady living upstairs might just drive them mad. A duplex house is a two-unit apartment building or condominium, usually indistinguishable from a normal house on the exterior. ... Brooklyn (named for the Dutch city Breukelen) is one of the five boroughs of New York City. ...

After the old woman (seemingly unintentionally) ruins the couple's lives, they hire a hit man to kill her, but she defends herself with her dead husband's harpoon, and the hit man fails.

Alex and Nancy decide to evict themselves, but find out that the old woman has died right when they leave. They contemplate their strange encounters, while it is revealed that the landlord of the duplex and the cop who distrusts the couple are the old woman's sons, and the woman (who is not dead) do this all the time, harassing young couples and faking their mother's death and collecting a commision.

Tagline

• Alex and Nancy finally found their dream home...And then they moved in.

External links

• Official site
• Duplex at the Internet Movie Database