The Duplex Brownstone! Hollywood veneer?

anonymous · August 2006

We saw that the Duplex house made it to the market again

http://www.corcoran.com/property/listing.aspx?Region=NYC&ListingID=898520

Is it really as good as it looks in the movie?

How could it be? I don't see how the math works out to make it 1100sft. It's one floor in a conventional building.

Anyway, were the scenes actually shot in that place?

Looks like the outside is actually pretty rough, though there have been workmen outside (perhaps working to fix up the facade to get it up to snuff for $2950!!! a month)

please let me know if you see the inside. i'd love to know if it's worth it.

regardless, that was a bad movie.

(please come back with a story of an old lady living on the top floor who annoys everyone with her very long stories!)

rose · August 2006

I don't know anything about the Duplex house, but I was amused by the "great garden area, almost exclusively yours."

Almost, except when other people are using it.

anonymous · August 2006

yes, exactly- almost exclusively yours.

i often stay in hostels where the room is almost exclusively mine. unless there's someone else there!

how shared can a backyard be in a house that big? do all the tenants typically get access?

ic96 · August 2006

I haven't seen the movie, so I'm not sure I understand the context of the topic. Can anyone give me the Cliff notes version?

apollonia666 · August 2006

Rose wrote: I don't know anything about the Duplex house, but I was amused by the "great garden area, almost exclusively yours."

Almost, except when other people are using it.

Maybe it's like my old place -- we had a backyard that was shared by everyone in my building and the building next door, but hardly anyone ever used it except for me. Once in a while the high school girl who lived with her mom next door to me took her boyfriend out there to make out, but otherwise it was almost always just me and my guests.

blackoyster · August 2006

From Wikipedia:

Alex Rose and Nancy Kendricks are a young couple who are looking for a perfect home. They finally settle for a duplex in Brooklyn, unaware that an old lady living upstairs might just drive them mad.

After the old woman (seemingly unintentionally) ruins the couple's lives, they hire a hit man to kill her, but she defends herself with her dead husband's harpoon, and the hit man fails.

Alex and Nancy decide to evict themselves, but find out that the old woman has died right when they leave. They contemplate their strange encounters, while it is revealed that the landlord of the duplex and the cop who distrusts the couple are the old woman's sons, and the woman (who is not dead) do this all the time, harrassing young couples and faking their mother's death.

Drew Barrymore was nominated for "Worst Actress" award in the 2003 Golden Raspberry Awards for her performance in Duplex. She lost to Jennifer Lopez for her role in Gigli.

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