Duplex (Our House) (2003)
Average Rating: 5/10
Reviews Counted: 106
Fresh: 38 | Rotten: 68
It was funnier when it was called Throw Momma From the Train.
Average Rating: 4.9/10
Critic Reviews: 31
Fresh: 10 | Rotten: 21
It was funnier when it was called Throw Momma From the Train.
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Average Rating: 2.9/5
User Ratings: 71,113
Movie Info
Just how far would you go to have the home of your dreams all to yourself? A couple start asking themselves that very question in this dark comedy directed by Danny DeVito. Alex (Ben Stiller) and Nancy (Drew Barrymore) are a young couple who are happy and successful, but lack one thing that they truly want -- the perfect home in Manhattan. Alex and Nancy think they may have found just the place they've been looking for when they discover the bottom half of a beautiful old duplex has opened up.
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Cast
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Ben Stiller
Alex Rose -
Drew Barrymore
Nancy Kendricks -
Eileen Essell
Mrs. Connelly -
Harvey Fierstein
Kenneth -
Robert Wisdom
Officer Dan -
Justin Theroux
Coop -
Amber Valletta
Celine -
James Remar
Chick -
Swoosie Kurtz
Jean -
Joe Banks
Police Officer -
Edward Edwards
Antique Dealer -
Louis Giambalvo
Pharmacist -
Jenette Goldstein
Moderator -
Philip Perlman
Phil -
Wallace Shawn
Herman -
Tracey Walter
Pharmacy Customer -
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Linda Porter
Old Biddy #2 -
Stomy Bugsy
Little Dick -
Christina Kirk
Mrs. Friedman -
John Hamburg
Mr. Friedman -
Mia Maestro
Little Dick -
Christopher Doyle
Tavern Bartender -
Chuma Hunter-Gault
Mailroom Guy -
Maya Rudolph
Tara -
Claude Picasso
Little Dick -
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Kumar Pallana
Indian Restaurant Owner -
Michelle Krusiec
Dr. Kang -
Geraldine Hughes
Receptionist -
Leyna Nguyen
Female Newscaster -
Jackie Titone
Bartender -
Tim Maculan
Terrence -
Eugene Lazarev
Mr. Dzerzhinsky -
Cheryl Klein
Ginger -
Gary Riotto
Drug Dealer -
Margie Loomis
Old Biddy #1 -
Jim Castillo
Weatherman -
Michael Fahn
Sneezer on Train -
Roberta R. Deen
Caterer -
Christine La Fontaine
Don Piper Fan #1 -
Guiles
Little Dick
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All Critics (111) | Top Critics (32) | Fresh (38) | Rotten (68) | DVD (23)
This numbing barrage of demolition humor scores only a modest laugh count.
The material is capably handled by director DeVito and lifted by Stiller, a dab hand at physical comedy who also exhibits some onscreen chemistry with Barrymore.
Top CriticEssell is brightly malevolent, and Stiller is perfect as the well-meaning homeowner.
One of the most unnerving slapstick extravaganzas I've ever seen.
If you want to see Danny DeVito do good work, see him in Anything Else right now, the Woody Allen movie.
Duplex draws out the worst in us, making us laugh even when we know we shouldn't.
Gets old fast, and the pay-off disappoints.
Despite confident direction and performances, it rarely lifts itself above the ordinary.
Danny DeVito is one of the most underrated directors of our time.
Expecting Stiller to look stressed and Barrymore to look sweet isn't exactly demanding too much of your stars.,
Hard as it is to care about these homicidal homemakers, it is harder still to laugh at them.
Barrymore wanders through scenes as if she has trouble remembering what day it is.
Offer[ed] as a grown-up variation of the kind of fart-and-vomit humor that's passed around at the cineplex every day. But why? It is what it is.
Contando com um bom desfecho (algo raro nos dias de hoje), Duplex representa um passatempo razoável.
Duplex puts its viewers in a painful suplex.
What this little comedy needed was a little...comedy.
There's a nice dark comedy in this script that's flattened by DeVito's direction, which continually opts for manic goofiness and cruel vulgarity.
Duplex collapses in rubble long before the duplex of the film does, and it's not even interesting wreckage.
not since 'Whatever Happened to Baby Jane,' has geriatric terrorism been so creepy.
Had Danny DeVito been born British and a quarter-century earlier, he would have fit right in at Ealing Studios, the English outfit known for biting black comedies.
DeVito keeps hurling handfuls of well-funded excrement on the screen and expects us to think it's funny.
Occasionally, if disturbingly, quite funny.
The interplay between Stiller, Barrymore, and the elderly Essel is what makes Duplex hum perfectly at times.
A controlled farce that finds its cast mining several big laughs while DeVito, the cynic, deepens the dysfunction with a final surprise twist.
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