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“God bless our humble upper-middle-class high-rise co-op and keep it free from smut peddlers, militants, urban guerrillas and Greenwich Village liberals.”

1970 · 1 h 27 min
Directed by Brian De Palma · USA · New Hollywood
ComedyDrama

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Cast

Robert De Niro

Credits

Written by: Brian De Palma

Plot

Vietnam vet Jon Rubin returns to New York and rents a rundown flat in Greenwich Village. It is in this flat that he begins to film, 'Peeping Tom' style, the people in the apartment across the street. His obsession with making films leads him to fall in with a radical 'Black Power' group, which in turn leads him to carry out a bizarre act of urban terrorism.

Sinekatalog’s take

Brian De Palma's satire follows Robert De Niro's voyeur filming his neighbours, ending in a radical theatre piece. Rough, funny and political, with a standout 'Be Black, Baby' sequence, it is a raw early De Palma.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.

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Ratings

IMDb: 6.1 / 10 (7,188 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes: 81%
IMDb rating and vote count from the IMDb ratings dataset (October 2026). Scores change over time.

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