Alex (Ben Stiller) and Nancy (Drew Barrymore) are a young married couple, who decide to move into a beautiful new duplex. Unfortunately, living upstairs is a crazy, obnoxious old woman named Mrs. Connelly (Eileen Essel). Interesting things begin happening as Alex and Nancy try to deal with Mrs. Connelly's annoying quirks and obnoxious requests for help.\nThe movie itself is decently amusing. There are very few laugh-out-loud moments (a notable exception includes Stiller dancing to "Riverdance"). Barrymore and Stiller have chemistry, but a lot of the comedy seems kind of forced, especially on Barrymore's part. The ending is pretty interesting, as it's definitely a twist. \nUnfortunately, the special features have no twists. There is one three minute "behind the scenes" special. There's nothing special about it, though. Basically, audiences get to see three minutes of director Danny DeVito, Barrymore and Stiller preparing to shoot a scene. There isn't even a voice-over explaining what they're doing. Instead, people get to guess what's going on.\nThere are also the obligatory deleted scenes -- only three on this DVD. They aren't particularly good, but at least they're more interesting than on most DVDs.\nFinally, the fact that it's a "two-disc" set is a real rip-off. One DVD contains the widescreen version with special features and the other features the fullscreen version. Don't pay for two copies of the same movie: in fact, don't even pay for one.
This 'Duplex' is best left unrented
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