Synopsis
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.
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Cast
- Jesse EisenbergSimon James / James Simon
- Mia WasikowskaHannah
- Wallace ShawnMr. Papadopoulos
- Yasmin PaigeMelanie
- Noah TaylorHarris
- James FoxThe Colonel
- Cathy MoriartyKiki
- Phyllis SomervilleSimon's Mother
- Gabrielle DowneyStrange Woman
- Jon KorkesDetective
Recommendations
- 100
The Guardian
The Double isn't an original idea. It wasn't even in Dostoyevsky's time. But it's a great story. And Ayoade has produced a brilliant copy. - 91
The Playlist
Totally bonkers, hilarious and wickedly clever, The Double is special and singular filmmaking at its best. - 91
IndieWire
The story arrives at a satisfying emotional conclusion with wonderfully thoughtful ramifications. - 80
Empire
Given the obvious influences on The Double, it could have felt like a facsimile of other films. Instead, it has enough individuality, imagination and idiosyncratic invention to identify it as a true original. - 78
Film.com
The Double taps into a deep reservoir of psychic turmoil even as it navigates the script’s abundant jokes, and the nightmare of the heart of the film is doubtless universal. - 63
McClatchy-Tribune News Service
Eisenberg, perfectly, pliably put upon, is the engine that drives this picture. - 60
The Telegraph
It's a bureaucratic noir nightmare that may put you more readily in mind of Kafka, albeit with a tone of tongue-in-cheek bleakness that's bracing and funny – at least at first. - 60
Variety
Undeniably impressive as a visual-psychological construct, The Double is ultimately a rigid, one-joke movie that feels hard pressed to sustain any sort of momentum over the course of its 92-minute running time.
