7.1
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
Body Double (1984)
Body Double (1984)
Overview
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. But when he witnesses the girl's murder, it leads Scully through the netherworld of the adult entertainment industry on a search for answers—with porn actress Holly Body as his guide.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
Rating & Dimensions
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Traditional
Political: Center
Diversity: Low
LGBTQ: Negative
Viewer Rating
7.1
Overview
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. But when he witnesses the girl's murder, it leads Scully through the netherworld of the adult entertainment industry on a search for answers—with porn actress Holly Body as his guide.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Traditional
Primary
The film primarily functions as a psychological thriller and a meta-commentary on voyeurism and the film industry, rather than explicitly promoting or critiquing a specific political ideology, leading to a neutral rating.
The movie features a predominantly traditional cast with no apparent intentional race or gender swaps of established roles. Its narrative does not explicitly critique traditional identities or center on strong DEI themes.
Secondary
Body Double features Sam Bouchard, an effeminate character who cross-dresses as part of a murder plot. The film links his gender non-conformity to his villainy and deception, reinforcing harmful stereotypes by associating non-normative gender expression with criminality and danger.
Body Double does not feature any identifiable transsexual characters or themes. The narrative does not engage with transsexual identity, as the instance of cross-dressing serves purely as a plot device for a cisgender male character's disguise and deception, making the portrayal N/A.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
Body Double is an original film from 1984, not an adaptation of existing source material or a historical account. All characters were created for this film, meaning there is no prior canonical gender to be swapped.
Body Double is an original 1984 film, not an adaptation, biopic, or reboot. Its characters were created for the film, meaning there is no prior established canon or historical record from which a character's race could have been changed.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
User Ratings
6.8
6.8
Critic Ratings
7.8
6.9
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