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In order to get away from their busy lives, the Wilson family takes a vacation to Santa Cruz, California. At night, four strangers break into Adelaide's childhood home. The family is shocked to find out that the intruders look like them.
- Rated
- R
- Runtime
- 1h 56m
- Released
- 2019
- Country
- United States, China, Japan
Details
Release year: 2019
Storyline
In order to get away from their busy lives, the Wilson family takes a vacation to Santa Cruz, California. At night, four strangers break into Adelaide's childhood home. The family is shocked to find out that the intruders look like them.
Top credits
Lupita Nyong'o — Adelaide Wilson, Red
Winston Duke — Gabe Wilson, Abraham
Elisabeth Moss — Kitty Tyler, Dahlia
Tim Heidecker — Josh Tyler, Tex
Did you know
• The fact that "Red" is the only Tethered who can/does speak English is a clue to her true identity. Likewise, her voice's hoarse, halting quality is due to both the facts that "Red" has not had anyone to speak with in decades and also that her vocal chords were damaged as a child when her double choked and abducted her. Likewise, "Adelaide"'s dialogue and story-line drop several voice-related clues about her identity. As a child, her parents took her to therapy after the switch because she seemed to stop talking. Though they assumed she was silent because of trauma, she actually couldn't talk, because she was a Tethered and it took her some time to learn how to speak. When Kitty tries to make small talk with adult Adelaide on the beach, Adelaide demurs, explaining, "I have a hard time talking."
• (at around 23 mins) The man holding the Jeremiah 11:11 sign was the first to be attacked by his doppelgänger. He is seen in the beginning of the movie being put in the back of an ambulance, presumably after being stabbed. Later, Jason sees the doppelgänger on the beach with blood on his hand and his arms outstretched, the first person in the line waiting for the others to join hands. You can also see his red jumpsuit sticking out of the bottom of his jacket.
• Jordan Peele gave the cast 11 horror films to watch so they would have "a shared language" when filming: Jaws (1975), Dead Again (1991), The Shining (1980), The Babadook (2014), It Follows (2014), A Tale of Two Sisters (2003), The Birds (1963), Funny Games (1997), Martyrs (2008), Let the Right One In (2008), and The Sixth Sense (1999).
Box Office
Gross (Domestic): $175,084,580
Opening Weekend (Domestic): $71,117,625 (2019-03-24)
User reviews
Disappointed.
So much potential...so much confusion.
Could have been so much better.
Technical specs
- Sound mix
- Dolby Atmos, DTS, Dolby Digital, Dolby Surround 7.1, SDDS
- Aspect ratio
- 2.39 : 1
- Color
- Color
