During the opening credits, we see an aroused Drew Barrymore squirming around with an unidentified man. She appears to be enjoying a very pleasant sexual experience, but is later haunted by this memory. Next, Drew Barrymore visits an unidentified woman and stabs her after bleeding from the nose and showing webbed fingers. The story really gets started when Barrymore (as Holly Gooding) arrives in Los Angeles to answer a "roommate wanted" ad placed by cute young writer George Newbern (as Patrick Highsmith). He wears a hat to bed, but Mr. Newbern is not balding...Also in town is a Barrymore twin she calls her "Doppelganger"...Newbern first sees the second Barrymore at a café with ex-girlfriend Leslie Hope (as Elizabeth). Then, she disappears. Dennis Christopher has fun as a mad doctor with Hell to pay and Sally Kellerman is a reformed nun. Newbern doesn't know what to think, and neither will you. There is a lesson here - if a beautiful young woman arrives to be your roommate, there will be a catch. Cheers to Avi Nesher and the crew for finding and re-decorating what looks like my old Los Angeles apartment. The curtains, tea kettle and dish drainer went with the place. The TV never worked.***** Doppelganger (4/24/93) Avi Nesher ~ Drew Barrymore, George Newbern, Leslie Hope, Dennis Christopher

Here we have a movie which fails in pretty much every way it is possible for a movie to fail. Terrible script, lousy acting, amateurish directing, laughable special effects...it's just an utterly awful movie. Not to mention the fact that when you get to the end you'll realize the whole thing doesn't make a lick of sense. After spending the whole movie wondering what in the world is going on here when things are finally explained you realize the story has been built on a foundation which is ludicrously impossible. In one of those hideous "villain explains the whole movie" sequences we are told that our villain has done something which quite simply can't be done and which makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. Oh, and after that we see that there also appears to be some kind of jell-o monster involved. I'm sure Drew Barrymore would very much like to pretend this movie never happened. If for some ungodly reason you are ever tempted to sit down and watch this movie may I suggest instead taking that time to bang your head against a wall for 104 minutes. That would prove to be a much more pleasurable experience than sitting through this garbage.

It got all the writer-directing-his-story kind of bad syndromes ! You may forgive (Avi Nesher) only because he wanted to create a very special horror/thriller movie, and strangely.. He did ! Like (Poltergeist - 1982) it had a German expression in its title. Like (Breakfast at Tiffany's - 1961) it got 2 strangers in unsettled love. Like (Vertigo - 1958) and (Sisters - 1973) it presents evil alter ego or mysterious half. It's so obvious how Mr. Nesher is one cinema-freak. But the sad result here was making his own movie freakily enough !Frankly, it looked like a soft core masquerading as horror, and sometimes it looked like cheap indie trash. Well.. Surely it was both in someway ! Yet the main stupidity remains in how the whole thing got solved at the end, I think in any plebiscite you'd get the same findings : no body on earth understood it ! I have a theory myself that Drew Barrymore's character is whether a schizophrenic alien or Siamese twins from outer space !! It was unbelievable mishmash of : mystery, average acting, very ancient stuff (blood in the shower, ..) so tricks (dreams sequences), tons of sex, and profuse gore. Not bad for a low budget horror where anything goes, but did it entertain you as it mainly and only wants ? As for me : I liked the most the music by (Jan A.P. Kaczmarek) as the highest element for sure, it seemed larger than the whole thing like something (Elmer Bernstein) or (Jerry Goldsmith) would create or surprisingly better. And no doubt or whatsoever I liked also : Drew Barrymore (and who can't?!).(Drew) was half of the show and nearly all of its joy. I think (Avi Nesher) left no style to produce sex from her, dishing her out in dashing erotic ways, exploding her sexually on the screen in your best wet dreams, despite that she was only 17 years old and some months at the moment ! Look at her picks up her purse from the ground by bending over to bare her legs and part of her panty, so the camera enjoys filming her from the lovely behind angle, and as a mad reaction to an excited street worker (who loved what he saw) she kicks him in the groins saying "I'm not a piece of meat". While apparently, for this very film's makers, she was. As the next scene we watch her showering nude, with a first shot showing her naked legs wet !Anyhow, she was straying after a serious drug problem at this unbalanced phase of her career, and this film just defines that finely. So that's why she always in several interviews expresses her absolute hatred for it.. I think it's rather absolute hatred for herself at that time. However we're the winners all the way.. Right ? As seeing Barrymore bends over, in good or lousy movie, is a real joy apart !But earnestly, heed making (Sally Kellerman)'s character as former nun who's working now as the head of sex phone office and the only one who knows what Doppelganger means, and making (George Newbern)'s character as a former writer of short stories who's working now as scriptwriter of low horror movies.. It makes you ask : is it a satire ? A look at a world that lacks : scientific knowledge, religiousness, and real art, that needs for just sex, violence, and cheap horror ? Well.. It could be a fair looking from the movie at itself ! You may feel it clearly when it presents a scriptwriter whom transforms Breakfast at Tiffany's into sleazy horror.. It could be self-sarcasm with inner-apology ?! (or good intentions to present what's higher, that had gone wrong ?!) (Avi Nesher) wanted a different kind of movie, and he actually did it. Despite how boring, easy, lame, lazy, and too unintelligible it was, it "historically" made its mark as an original horror concept. Deficient? Yes, but also with a climax that's scary as hell. And don't forget it's the sultriest (and goofiest) Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ever. Really there is something bold in it; to make something totally new, with a finale allows some never-made sequels. However its ambition wasn't fulfilled as it should be, as the only fully fulfilled things here were : Kaczmarek's super music, and Drew Barrymore's sweet body ! Like the movie's own twist my review also got one as I believe (Doppelganger) made it to be a trashy classic (Yes, some trash can be classic too) with certain personality that's forever : horrific, sexy, deficient, incomprehensible. To live longer than its common age as a low horror movie. So (Avi Nesher) eventually gained immortality even in the wrong way and by the wrong reputation !

Drew Barrymore was excellent in this film. This role is the type of role you don't normally see Drew play. Her typical role is as a woman looking for love. The storyline is also great.When Holly is implicated in her mother's murder she moves to L.A. She moves in with a guy who becomes her lover. But her brother who is in a mental prison hospital for what they believe is murder is almost killed she is wrongfully accused. It is then revealed to her lover that she has Multiple Personality Disorder. After that another woman becomes paranoid when she's around her. In the end though, they find out the truth.