Product Details

• Actors: Ben Stiller, Drew Barrymore, Eileen Essell, Harvey Fierstein, Justin Theroux
• Directors: Danny DeVito
• Writers: Larry Doyle
• Producers: Ben Stiller, Drew Barrymore, Alan C. Blomquist, Bob Weinstein, Harvey Weinstein
• Format: Anamorphic, Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
• Language: English (Dolby Digital 5.1), French (Unknown)
• Subtitles: Spanish
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Studio: Miramax Home Entertainment
• DVD Release Date: March 2, 2004
• Run Time: 89 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (95 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0000YTOKI
• Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #25,228 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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Editorial Reviews

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Anyone who's lived in an apartment will understand the mounting frustration of Ben Stiller and Drew Barrymore as they grapple with the upstairs neighbor of their worst nightmares in Duplex, directed by Danny DeVito. Stiller and Barrymore play a young couple who think they've found the home of their dreams when they buy an astonishingly spacious Brooklyn duplex. Unfortunately, the second floor comes with a tenant, a seemingly sweet little old lady (Eileen Essell). Her petty demands and manipulative ways drive Stiller and Barrymore to desperate attempts to oust her--and when she breezily resists their worst efforts, the hapless pair begin to consider more serious (and final) measures. Duplex might be called a comedy of anxiety; it constantly pricks at your expectations of disaster, sending you into a nervous state that demands laughter as a release. Also featuring Wallace Shawn, Harvey Fierstein, and Swoosie Kurtz. --Bret Fetzer

Product Description

A young couple have an elderly tenant in their duplex who is making them crazy.

Customer Reviews

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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I can't believe the bad reviews this got...It's too funny!, January 23, 2007

By	Barbara L. Morris "BeansMommy" (Toledo Ohio USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Duplex (DVD)

Everything about this movie I love. I love both Drew Barrymore and Ben Stiller too!
They are so endearing and convincing as a newly married couple.
It starts out that this young married couple are having a hard time finding the house of thier dreams in their price range. It seems almost too good to be true when they find a duplex near the big city life in Brooklyn, it is beautiful and spacious, and the downfall is that it comes with a very, VERY old woman who rents the upstairs apartment.

Because of a clause in her rental agreement, they cannot kick her out,but being that she is old, they figure she will die soon enough, So they buy the place and move in.

Suddenly the old lady seems healthy as a horse, and is a constant nuisance to them.
She keeps them awake all night with her blaring TV, Always bothering them for favors etc.
As things continue to go from bad to worse, they decide to have a hit on her, and hire a hit man to do it...Like everything else, that goes terribly wrong, too.

This movie is full of mishaps, one after another, and soon you will be rooting for them to kill the old hag :)
There are a few twists that will surprise you in the end, but I guarantee it will keep you laughing !

Highly reccomended, and one you will want to watch over and over.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars THE CLAPPER, August 25, 2005

By	melvin brooks (austin) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Duplex (DVD)

Yes, I had never heard of this movie until my girlfriend rented it one night. I loved Zoolander so I wasn't that surprised to like this. Anywho..the whole "Clapper" scene was so stupid I almost puked I was laughing so hard.Honestly we kept backing up the movie just for that scene. Just watching Ben Stillers face contort in agony was great. Great Friday night movie worth watching again!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Funny - slapstick - not a keeper ..., August 15, 2004

By	Mary Chrapliwy (NJ, USA) - See all my reviews (VINE VOICE)    (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Duplex (DVD)

This is a comedy about a young couple who decides to buy a duplex just outside New York City. They have an irritating old woman living upstairs in a rent controlled apartment that they own as part of the property. He's a writer, struggling to finish his second novel. She's the supportive wife going off to work at a magazine in NY. The little old woman is a very old widow.

During the course of the movie, the old woman continuously disturbs their sleep, destroys the writer's ability to finish his work, and generally disrupts the peace and tranquility they mistakenly thought they would attain with the purchase of the house.

What follows is a myriad of very entertaining, slapstick comedy and a murder plot. This movie is funny, but somehow just misses the mark. So much more could have been done with the plot and parts of the story just fall flat. Though this is an entertaining movie I recommend that you rent, don't buy. You'll watch it once and live happily without watching it ever again. It is most definitely not a keeper.