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Jake Gyllenhaal is Adam, a university lecturer in Toronto stuck in a repetitive job, alienated from society, and married to a woman who refuses to fuck him. One day, despite his contempt for film, Adam watches a film and sees movie that apparently stars an actor who is his exact doppelgänger. It starts off as an innocent infiltration. Adam picks up Anthony's mail at the film studio. And then he calls him up. He has a boyish excitement about finding someone who sounds like him. It feels harmless. Except it isn't. Meanwhile a freaked out Anthony starts googling Adam. Anthony's heavily pregnant girlfriend thinks he's having an affair and ends up meeting Adam. And this leads us into very murky territory indeed. Does Anthony exist? Does Adam? Is this the story of one man with two lives? Or is this two people deciding to escalate a battle of extreme disruption at the expense of the women in their lives?
Jake Gyllenhaal is Adam, a university lecturer in Toronto stuck in a repetitive job, alienated from society, and married to a woman who refuses to fuck him. One day, despite his contempt for film, Adam watches a film and sees movie that apparently stars an actor who is his exact doppelgänger. It starts off as an innocent infiltration. Adam picks up Anthony's mail at the film studio. And then he calls him up. He has a boyish excitement about finding someone who sounds like him. It feels harmless. Except it isn't. Meanwhile a freaked out Anthony starts googling Adam. Anthony's heavily pregnant girlfriend thinks he's having an affair and ends up meeting Adam. And this leads us into very murky territory indeed. Does Anthony exist? Does Adam? Is this the story of one man with two lives? Or is this two people deciding to escalate a battle of extreme disruption at the expense of the women in their lives?
