Body Double

About Body Double

After losing an acting role and his girlfriend, Jake Scully finally catches a break: he gets offered a gig house-sitting in the Hollywood Hills. While peering through the beautiful home's telescope one night, he spies a gorgeous woman dancing in her window.

Body Double is a 1984 crime mystery film directed by Brian De Palma. Craig Wasson appears as Jake Scully, Melanie Griffith as Holly Body, Gregg Henry as Sam Bouchard, and Deborah Shelton as Gloria Revelle.

It runs 114 minutes and was released in October 1984. Written by Brian De Palma and Robert J. Avrech.

Shelv files it under neighbor, whodunit, voyeurism, and erotic thriller. It scores 6.7 out of 10 from 972 TMDB voters and it carries a R rating.

Dressed to Kill, The Long Goodbye, and Cruising make useful companions to Body Double, all filed under american giallo and murder.