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Genres:
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Comedy
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Release:
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Director:
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Danny DeVito
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Actors:
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Amber Valletta,
Harvey Fierstein,
Eileen Essell,
Yevgeni Lazarev,
Jackie Sandler,
Cheryl Klein,
Ben Stiller,
Drew Barrymore,
Justin Theroux,
James Remar,
Robert Wisdom,
Swoosie Kurtz,
Wallace Shawn,
Maya Rudolph,
Tim Maculan
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Duration:
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85 min.
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Rating:
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(5.7/10)115
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Plot Summary:
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A brood combine has a luck to get the show on the road into a neat duplex in the perfect New York neighborhood. All they receive to do is bump off the current resident, a beautiful scarcely grey lady.
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Duplex
Ben Stiller and Drew Barrymore star as a couple who move into a Brooklyn apartment, only to be driven insane by their geriatric neighbour. Dark comedy from Danny DeVito
Following the straight-to-video UK release of 2002's Death To Smoochy, and this unsatisfactory subsequent offering, one has to wonder what happened to the DeVito who directed shrewd comedies like The War Of The Roses (1989) and Throw Momma From The Train (1987). This story of two New York professionals, magazine journalist Nancy (Barrymore) and novelist Alex (Stiller), feels like a mish-mash of both those earlier efforts, though it never achieves the black laughs of either.
Narrated as well as directed by DeVito and scripted by Larry Doyle and John Hamburg - the man resp...
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