Jake comes home to find his girlfriend with another man and has to find a new place. In between his acting workshops and his job in a vampire B-movie, he scans the paper looking for anything. He happens to meet a fellow actor who needs a house sitter. Both are pleased with the arrangement that will have Jake staying in the house and for a sweetener, Frank shows him his favorite neighbor, a well built woman who strips with her window open each night. Jake becomes obsessed with meeting her and is able to help recover her purse from a thief, but shows his own phobia, he is incapacitated by claustrophobia when the thief runs through a tunnel. When Jake witnesses a murder, he finds out that the police love to pin crimes on peeping Toms. Jake discovers that here are just too many coincidences but must hunt them down himself without the police.
Tatum O’Neal, Jamie Lee Curtis and Carrie Fisher all auditioned for the role of Holly, but turned it down. Brooke Shields was offered the role, but turned it down in order to study French Literature at Princeton. Linda Hamilton turned down the role in order to prepare for her role in The Terminator (1984). Holly was ultimately played by Melanie Griffith

Michael Kearns, who is credited as ”Male Porn Star,” unbeknownst to Brian De Palma, actually starred in a gay porn film titled L.A. Tool & Die (1979). Despite his porn past, Kearns was still cast because it was felt he was the right actor for the part.

Film debut of Barbara Crampton

1984

R

851789003566

Movie

Brian De Palma

1.85:1

114

United States

2013-08-13

MPEG-4 AVC

1080p

1.85:1

50 GB (Blu)

1

Free

Snap Case

~$19.50

2025-03-01

2018-02-07 21:17:37