Duplex (2003)
36 %
Reviews Counted: 100 Fresh: 36 Rotten:64 Average Rating: 5/10
Consensus:
It was funnier when it was called Throw Momma From the Train.
Runtime: 1 hr 37 mins
Theatrical Release: Sep 26, 2003 Wide
Box Office: $9,652,000
Synopsis: Danny DeVito directs Ben Stiller and Drew Barrymore in this devilish black comedy reminiscent of DeVito's THROW MOMMA FROM THE TRAIN and THE WAR OF THE ROSES. Alex Rose (Stiller) and Nancy Kendricks (Barrymore) are a young, professional, New York couple in search of their dream home. When... [More]
Genre: Comedies
Starring: Drew Barrymore, Ben Stiller, Eileen Essell, Harvey Fierstein, Justin Theroux
Director: Danny DeVito
Screenwriter: Larry Doyle, John Hamburg
Producer: Stuart Cornfeld, Nancy Juvonen, Drew Barrymore, Ben Stiller
Screenwriter: Larry Doyle, John Hamburg
Producer: Stuart Cornfeld, Nancy Juvonen, Drew Barrymore, Ben Stiller
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07/22/08
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01/26/06
Expecting Stiller to look stressed and Barrymore to look sweet isn't exactly demanding too much of your stars.,
07/16/04
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.
03/19/04
Contando com um bom desfecho (algo raro nos dias de hoje), Duplex representa um passatempo razoável.
03/17/04
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.
02/12/04
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01/15/04
Duplex collapses in rubble long before the duplex of the film does, and it’s not even interesting wreckage.
01/01/04
not since 'Whatever Happened to Baby Jane,' has geriatric terrorism been so creepy.
12/31/03
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.
11/04/03
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10/17/03
A controlled farce that finds its cast mining several big laughs while DeVito, the cynic, deepens the dysfunction with a final surprise twist.
10/09/03
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