Duplex
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Mixed or average reviews- based on 22 Ratings
- Starring: Ben Stiller, Drew Barrymore, Eileen Essell
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Summary:
When a young New York couple (Stiller, Barrymore) settle into their first home, they find that it comes with one feature they didn't expect: an upstairs, rent-controlled tenant who is not what they anticipated. (Miramax)
- Director: Danny DeVito
- Genre(s): Comedy
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Positive: 8 out of 31
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Mixed: 18 out of 31
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Negative: 5 out of 31
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80What DeVito does that makes me consider him a master is that he is able to capture the most horrible and nasty facets of the human condition and present them on the screen with the charm and warmth of an Andy Williams holiday special.
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60A bitter little fable of rent control and its discontents, Duplex moves rapidly into darkness and claustrophobia.
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60Playing straight man isn't really Barrymore's strength, but former "Simpson's" writer Larry Doyle's script is funny and Stiller is even funnier; he turns even the more juvenile moments in something to laugh at.
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38Duplex's tenant-from-hell scenario is as predictable as it is tedious -- a tinny, unsatisfying throwaway farce.
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Positive: 5 out of 8
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Mixed: 1 out of 8
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Negative: 2 out of 8
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Upchuckingly unfunny.
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