Us (2019)

A family's serenity turns to chaos when a group of doppelgängers begin to terrorize them.

Director:

Jordan Peele

Writer:

Jordan Peele

Stars:

Elisabeth Moss, Anna Diop, Lupita Nyong'o

Cast

Credited cast, sorted by IMDb STARmeter:
Elisabeth Moss	...	Mrs. Tyler
Anna Diop
Lupita Nyong'o	...	Adelaide Wilson
Kara Hayward	...	Nancy
Winston Duke	...	Gabe Wilson
Yahya Abdul-Mateen II
Cali Sheldon
Tim Heidecker	...	Mr. Tyler
Shahadi Wright Joseph	...	Zora Wilson
Noelle Sheldon
Nathan Harrington	...	Glenn
Evan Alex	...	Jason Wilson
Madison Curry
Alessandro Garcia	...	EMT
Duke Nicholson

Storyline

In order to get away from their busy lives, the Wilson family takes a vacation to Santa Cruz, California with the plan of spending time with their friends, the Tyler family. On a day at the beach, their young son Jason almost wanders off, causing his mother Adelaide to become protective of her family. That night, four mysterious people break into Adelaide's childhood home where they're staying. The family is shocked to find out that the intruders look like and talk like them, only with grotesque appearances.

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Plot Keywords:

home invasion | doppleganger | marriage | father son relationship | mother son relationship | 

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Taglines:

From Jordan Peele, writer/director of 'Get Out,' comes a New Nightmare

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Genres:

Horror | Thriller

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for violence/terror, and language.

Details

Official Sites:

Official Facebook Official site

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

22 March 2019 (USA)

Also Known As:

Us

Filming Locations:

Los Angeles, California, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$24,601,000 (estimated)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Monkeypaw Productions, QC Entertainment, Universal Pictures

Technical Specs

Runtime:

120 min

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.39 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Jordan Peele gave the cast ten horror films to watch so they would have "a shared language" when filming: Dead Again (1991), The Shining (1980), The Babadook (2014), It Follows (2014), A Tale of Two Sisters (2003), The Birds (1963), Funny Games (2007), Martyrs (2008), Let the Right One In (2008), and The Sixth Sense (1999).

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Quotes

[from trailer]
Adelaide Wilson: They look exactly like us. They think like us. They know where we are. We need to move and keep moving. They won't stop until they kill us... or we kill them.

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Connections

References It Follows (2014)