Taglines: We are our own worst enemy.
A young Adelaide (Madison Curry) goes to the beach on a trip with her parents Rayne and Russell (Anna Diop and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II). After Russell wins Adelaide a Michael Jackson ‘Thriller’ T-shirt at a carnival game and plays Whac-a-Mole, Adelaide wanders off and encounters a homeless man with a Jeremiah 11:11 placard and then walks into a nearby fun-house.
Inside, she’s terrified by the mirrors and vibe of the place and eventually comes face to face with an exact doppelganger. The incident scares her. Some time later, Adelaide is refusing to talk as her parents worry about her. The therapist tells them to make Adelaide tell her story through the form of anything – reading, writing, or dance.
In the present day, an adult Adelaide Wilson (Lupita Nyong’o) goes on a beach trip with her husband Gabe (Winston Duke) and their two children 12-year-old Zora (Shahidi Wright Joseph) and 10-year-old Jason (Evan Alex). While the family has lunch at their beach house, we find out several things – one is that the beach trip was to help the children cope with the death of their grandmother and the other is that Adelaide appears to still be terrified of the idea of going to the beach because of what happened before and refuses to go. After some persuasion, however, she reluctantly agrees to join her family to go to the beach. On the way, the family sees a man being brought into an ambulance – it is the same homeless man that Adelaide encountered many years ago with the Jeremiah 11:11 placard.
At the beach, the Wilson family meets their friend the Tylers, comprising of Kitty (Elizabeth Moss), Josh (Tim Heidecker), and their twin teenage daughters Gwen and Maggie (Cali and Noelle Sheldon). While the kids are all at the beach, Kitty and Adelaide talk about Adelaide’s soft-spoken nature and her past as a young ballet dancer. Jason soon wanders off on his own and finds a man with his arms stretched out dripping with blood. Adelaide notices her son missing and panicking, eventually finds Jason and decides that it’s time for the family to go back to the house.
Us is a 2019 American horror film written and directed by Jordan Peele, starring Lupita Nyong’o, Winston Duke, Elisabeth Moss, and Tim Heidecker. The film follows Adelaide Wilson (Nyong’o) and her family, who are attacked by a group of mysterious doppelgängers.
The project was announced in February 2018, and much of the cast joined in the following months. Peele produced the film alongside Jason Blum and Sean McKittrick (with the trio previously having collaborated on Get Out and BlacKkKlansman), as well as Ian Cooper. Filming took place from July to October 2018 in California, mostly in Los Angeles and Pasadena and also in Santa Cruz.
Us had its world premiere at South by Southwest on March 8, 2019, and was theatrically released in the United States on March 22, 2019, by Universal Pictures. It was a critical and commercial success, grossing $255 million worldwide against a budget of $20 million, and received praise for Peele’s screenplay and direction, as well as the musical score and Nyong’o’s performance.
Us (2019)
Directed by: Jordan Peele
Starring: Elisabeth Moss, Anna Diop, Lupita Nyong’o, Kara Hayward, Winston Duke, Yahya Abdul-Mateen, Cali Sheldon, Noelle Sheldon, Madison Curry, Nathan Harrington, Shahadi Wright Joseph
Screenplay by: Jordan Peele
Production Design by: Ruth De Jong
Cinematography by: Mike Gioulakis
Film Editing by: Nicholas Monsour
Costume Design by: Kym Barrett
Set Decoration by: Florencia Martin
Art Direction by: Cara Brower
Music by: Michael Abels
MPAA Rating: R for violence/terror, and language.
Distributed by: Universal Pictures
Release Date: March 22, 2019
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