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Overview

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Director:
Avi Nesher
Writer:
Avi Nesher (writer)
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Release Date:
23 October 1993 (South Korea) more
Tagline:
What if your deepest, darkest desire came to life? more
Plot:
A woman (Barrymore) moves from NYC to LA after a murder, in which she is implicated. She is followed by what is apparently her evil alter- ego... more | add synopsis
Awards:
1 nomination more
NewsDesk:
Psycho Holocaust gang gives you Wicked Wood
 (From Fangoria. 28 November 2008, 9:39 AM, PST)

User Comments:
What a mess! more

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Drew Barrymore ... Holly Gooding

George Newbern ... Patrick Highsmith
Dennis Christopher ... Doctor Heller

Leslie Hope ... Elizabeth
Sally Kellerman ... Sister Jan
George Maharis ... Mike Wallace

Peter Dobson ... Rob

Carl Bressler ... Larry Spaulding
Dan Shor ... Stanley White
Jaid Barrymore ... Mrs. Gooding

Stanley DeSantis ... Richard Wolf

Sean Whalen ... Gas Man
Thomas Bosack ... Holly's Father
Sarina C. Grant ... Detective Pouget (as Sarina Grant)

John Cardone ... Handcuffed Man
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Doppelganger: The Evil Within (USA)
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Runtime:
104 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Ultra Stereo

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Goofs:
Factual errors: At the old house towards the end, Dennis Christopher (as the Doppelganger) Jabs Holly with a syringe to knock her out. The syringe is half full of air and half of milky liquid- he didn't get the air out before jabbing her with it. That amount of air in her bloodstream would surely have killed her. more
Quotes:
[Elisabeth comments on how fast Patrick had begun sleeping with Holly when a guy comes out of her bedroom]
Patrick Highsmith: What was that you were saying about 6 months of suffering?
Elisabeth: OK, so I'm a slut, you're a slut, who wants coffee?
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Movie Connections:
Spoofs Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) more
Soundtrack:
Red Tiger more

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11 out of 14 people found the following comment useful:-
What a mess!, 16 April 2005
4/10
Author: Scott LeBrun from Winnipeg, Canada

Drew Barrymore plays young Holly Gooding, who moves in with aspiring hack screenwriter Patrick Highsmith (George Newbern) and completely disrupts his life by claiming that her "doppelganger", or evil twin, is out to kill her and her family.

This silly horror film is kind of hard to take seriously, even if the film-makers and actors themselves seem to be dead serious. "Doppelganger" is muddled, with some unpleasantly dumb dialog.

Some viewers will note that Drew's character's name is drawn from Audrey Hepburn's role in "Breakfast at Tiffany's", and that Newbern's character's name is a play on the name of famed author Patricia Highsmith (he is actually trying to re-write "Breakfast" as a horror film, believe it or not!).

I suppose that it deserves some credit for not being quite your typical horror film - I mean, writer/director Avi Nesher seems to genuinely care for his characters, and gives his film more plot than standard slasher fare.

After a silly villain-explains-everything-to-the-audience confrontation, the film goes on to submit a hideous, out-there climax that has to be seen to be believed. This film certainly does not skimp on the gore.

But hey! Drew kills her mother in this one. No, I'm not joking. Jaid Barrymore shows up near the beginning only to get violently slaughtered.

Drew is always very watchable, and very sexy in this one. Newbern comes off as a likable-enough, "nice" sort of guy. But the highpoint of the film has to be the scene with Sally Kellerman, an attractive veteran who's very professional in her one scene as a former nun who's started a phone sex business(!!!!!!).

The film is basically junk but fairly amusing on a sleazy, sordid little level.

4/10

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