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Us is a 2019 American horror, thriller film and the second film directed by Jordan Peele. It was released on March 15, 2019.
Plot[]
In 1986, young Adelaide Thomas wanders away from her parents at the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk and enters a funhouse. She encounters Red, a doppelgänger of herself, in the house of mirrors. Following the encounter, she suddenly stops speaking and withdraws from her family.
Thirty-three years later, an adult Adelaide reluctantly goes on vacation with her husband, Gabe Wilson, and their children, Zora and Jason. They meet their friends, Josh and Kitty Tyler, and their twin daughters, Becca and Lindsey, at the beach. On the way, they witness paramedics taking away the bloody body of an old man holding a sign identical to one Adelaide saw on the day of the doppelgänger encounter. Jason later sees someone strangely similar to the old man, standing still, with his arms outstretched and hands bloodstained.
That night, Adelaide relays her story to Gabe when the lights suddenly go out. Jason notices a family of four in the driveway, who break into the house and corner the Wilsons. The intruders are the Wilsons' doppelgängers: Red (Adelaide's doppelganger), Pluto (Jason's pyromaniac, facially scarred double), Umbrae (Zora's sadistic double) and Abraham (Gabe's animalistic double). Red is the only double who can speak, albeit in a raspy voice. She explains that they are called "the Tethered", as they share a soul with their counterparts and have come to "untether" themselves. The Wilsons are separated and terrorized by their doppelgängers. Jason discovers that Pluto mirrors his actions. After Gabe kills Abraham, the family escapes.
Meanwhile, the Tyler family is attacked and murdered in their home by their doppelgängers. The Wilsons arrive and are attacked as well, but they manage to overpower and kill the Tylers' doubles. They watch the news and learn that the Tethered have been murdering their equivalents across the city then joining hands to form a human chain (similar to the one from the Hands Across America demonstration) that surrounds the city. The Wilsons decide to drive along the coast and escape to Mexico. While they are leaving, Umbrae intercepts the car but Zora throws her off the car and kills her; Adelaide goes separately to comfort Umbrae as she dies.
Arriving at the boardwalk, the Wilsons find many townspeople slaughtered. The road is blocked by a burning car. Jason, realizing it is a trap set by Pluto, orders everyone out of the car. Before Pluto can ignite the family's car, Jason walks backwards, causing Pluto to do the same and thus walk directly into the fire, to Adelaide's sadness. While the Wilsons are distracted by Pluto burning to death, Red appears and snatches Jason away. Adelaide chases Red to the funhouse where they first met and finds a secret entrance that leads to an underground facility overrun by white rabbits, where she finds Red in a classroom.
Red vaguely explains that the Tethered are duplicates created, presumably by the government, to control the populace. When the experiment failed, the Tethered were abandoned underground mindlessly mimicking the actions of their counterparts and surviving on raw rabbit meat. After the other doppelgängers realized Red was "different", when she snapped them out of their lethargy, she spent years organizing them to escape and take vengeance by murdering their counterparts. Red and Adelaide begin to fight, but Red evades and counters all of Adelaide's attacks. When Adelaide allows Red to attack, she impales Red with a fireplace poker, then strangles her and breaks her neck. She rescues Jason from a locker with Jason also rescuing one of the rabbits. As she escapes in an ambulance with her family, Adelaide reflects back to the night she first met Red. It’s revealed that she is the Tethered doppelgänger and that Red was the original Adelaide. The doppelgänger, having choked Adelaide unconscious, dragged and trapped her underground then returned to the surface to usurp her life. Jason looks at his mother who simply smiles, while the Tethered form a human chain that stretches across the countryside.[1]
List of Deaths[]
- Unnamed Man - Stabbed in the chest by his double.
- Angry Car Owner - Stabbed w/ scissors by Umbrae.
- Abraham Wilson - Shredded in boat propeller by Gabe.
- Becca Tyler - Stabbed to death w/ scissors by Io.
- Lindsey Tyler - Stabbed to death w/ scissors by Nix.
- Josh Tyler - Stabbed to death w/ scissors by Tex
- Kitty Tyler - Stabbed to death and throat clit w/ scissors by Dahlia.
- Io Tyler - Skull crushed w/ golf club by Zora
- Tex Tyler - Hacked in the face by Addie with a fire poker and beaten to death by Gabe with a flare gun.
- Dahlia Tyler - Back of her skull bashed in w/ trophy by Jason.
- 3 People - Seen dead, stabbed by their doubles.
- Reporter - Stabbed to death by his double on live news report.
- Nix Tyler - Stabbed in the chest w/ scissors by Addie.
- Umbrae Wilson - Flung into a tree by Zora after she stopped the car, cracking her spine on the branches.
- 15 People - Seen dead, stabbed by their doubles.
- Pluto Wilson - Mimicked Jason's movements and walked into a burning car.
- 36 People - Seen dead, stabbed by their doubles.
- Red Wilson - Impaled through the chest with a fire poker, strangled and neck snapped w/ handcuffs by Addie
Cast[]
- Lupita Nyong'o as Adelaide Wilson (nee Thomas)/Red
- Winston Duke as Gabriel "Gabe" Wilson/Abraham
- Elisabeth Moss as Kitty Tyler/Dahlia
- Tim Heidecker as Josh Tyler/Tex
- Yahya Abdul-Mateen II as Russell Thomas/Weyland
- Anna Diop as Rayne Thomas/Eartha
- Shahadi Wright-Joseph as Zora Wilson/Umbrae
- Evan Alex as Jason Wilson/Pluto
- Madison Curry as young Adelaide/young Red
- Cali Sheldon as Becca Tyler/Io
- Noelle Sheldon as Lindsey Tyler/Nix
- Duke Nicholson as Danny/Tony
- Kara Hayward as Nancy/Syd
- Ashley McKoy as Teenage Adelaide/Teenage Red
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Critical response[]
On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 94% based on 458 reviews, with an average rating of 7.94/10.
Videos[]
External links[]
Us (2019) at the Internet Movie Database- Us (2019) at AllMovie
- Us (2019) at Rotten Tomatoes
- Us (2019) at Wikipedia
