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03/04/2014 Thriller, Drama 1h 33m
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Overview

An awkward office drone becomes increasingly unhinged after a charismatic and confident look-alike takes a job at his workplace and seduces the woman he desires.

  1. Avi Korine

    Writer

  2. Richard Ayoade

    Director, Writer

Top billed cast

  1. Jesse Eisenberg

    Simon James / James Simon

  2. Mia Wasikowska

    Hannah

  3. Wallace Shawn

    Mr. Papadopoulos

  4. Yasmin Paige

    Melanie

  5. Noah Taylor

    Harris

  6. James Fox

    The Colonel

  7. Cathy Moriarty

    Kiki

  8. Phyllis Somerville

    Simon's Mother

  9. Gabrielle Downey

    Strange Woman

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Reviews

A review by badelf
Written by badelf on 2026-06-10
Richard Ayoade's The Double, based loosely on Dostoevsky's novel of the same name, unfolds in a world that feels equal parts Kafka and Orwell, a bureaucratic nightmare rendered in sickly yellow fluorescents and impossible architecture. The tone is oppressively dark, deliberately nonsensical; this is a universe where logic has left the building, where every interaction carries the threat of absurdist cruelty.

The film takes Dostoevsky's central question and makes it visceral: we all maintain multiple identities, slipping between our work self, our social self, our private self with practiced...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$200,000.00

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