Doppelganger1993

Director
Avi Nesher

Acters

Drew Barrymore (Holly Gooding)
George Newbern (Patrick Highsmith)
Dennis Christopher (Doctor Heller)
Leslie Hope (Elizabeth)
Sally Kellerman (Sister Jan)
George Maharis (Mike Wallace)

A writer with a room for rent acquires a strange new roommate with a psychotic alter-ego that follows her wherever she goes.
A tale of supernatural suspense and psychological terror following events in the life of Holly Gooding, who arrives in Los Angeles hoping to escape the nightmare her life has become. She is convinced she is being stalked by a creature that looks and talks like her; a creature who brutally stabbed her mother to death. But this creature is not her. It is her doppelganger, her ghostly double, whose only emotion is hate and whose only desire is to destroy Holly and claim her life as its own. She meets Patrick Highsmith who, convinced that Holly’s life may hang in the balance, is forced to choose between what his mind tells him is real and what his heart tells him is true.
“The acting is good, Drew has an infamous shower scene, and it’s all great fun.” – Combustible Celluloid
“’Doppelganger’ opens as a classic thriller with the brutal scene that brings back memories of Brian De Palma’s ‘Dressed To Kill’ and Dario Argento’s gialli. Even after that, and actually about fifteen minutes before the end, it seems that this is a ‘normal’ thriller. But the devil is in the tail with this film.” – Schokkend Nieuws (Dutch)
“Throughout the film, director Avi Nesher manages to create some decent Hitchcockian atmosphere. Barrymore is excellent as both the sexy doppelganger as well as her virginal twin.” – The Video Vacuum