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Jordan Peele’s second horror film, “Us,” made $70.3 million in the U.S. and Canada, according to preliminary studio estimates, more than double the ticket sales for the writer-director’s 2017 breakout hit, “Get Out.”

The opening was the biggest ever for an original horror movie, according to Comscore, overtaking “A Quiet Place,” which made $50.2 million in its opening weekend last year.

The movie starred the beautiful Lupita Nyong’o and Black Panther sensation Winston Duke. Jordan Peele new film scored 100% on Rotten Tomatoes making it back to back 100% scores for his hit movies US and Get Out.

We had the opportunity to interview the cast of the film in New York City at their premiere.

PLOT:

In 1986, young Adelaide Thomas vacations with her parents in Santa Cruz. At the beach, Adelaide wanders off and enters a funhouse, where she encounters a doppelgänger of herself in the funhouse’s hall of mirrors. Adelaide is later reunited with her parents, although traumatized and unable to talk about her experience.

In the present day, a now adult Adelaide heads to her family’s beach house in Santa Cruz with her husband Gabe Wilson and their children, Zora and Jason. Adelaide, remembering the traumatic incident from her youth, is apprehensive about the trip; Gabe, eager to impress their friends Josh and Kitty Tyler, purchases a boat and brushes off Adelaide’s concerns. At the beach, Jason wanders off and sees a man in a red jumpsuit standing alone on the beach with bloodied hands and his arms outstretched. He does not tell his family about the man but later draws a picture of him.

Later that night, four intruders appear in the driveway of the beach house. Gabe attempts to intimidate the strangers but they attack him and break into the home. The Wilsons realize that the four intruders are doppelgängers of themselves, led by Adelaide’s double, Red. Red, the only doppelgänger capable of speech, tells the Wilsons the story of a girl who lives a happy life while her shadow suffers. The family is then separated by their opposites: Adelaide is handcuffed to a table by Red, Zora is pursued out of the house by Umbrae, Gabe is dragged outside by Abraham, and Jason is forced to “play” with Pluto in a closet.

While chasing Zora, Umbrae is interrupted by an investigating neighbor, whom she stabs to death with a golden pair of scissors; this distraction allows Zora to escape. Gabe is able to kill Abraham with his boat’s malfunctioning motor, while Jason discovers that Pluto mirrors his actions almost exactly. Jason is able to distract Pluto with a magic trick and escapes, locking Pluto in a closet. Red is distracted by Pluto’s cries, allowing Adelaide time to break free. The family regroups and escapes on Gabe’s boat.

Meanwhile, the Tylers are murdered by their doubles shortly before the Wilsons arrive. The Wilsons kill the Tyler’s doubles and turn on the local news to see that millions of doppelgängers, who call themselves “the Tethered”, have been committing murders throughout the United States. The doppelgängers subsequently join hands together to form a massive human chain, which the newscasters speculate is a form of protest.

The Wilsons drive away in the Tylers’ car until they are attacked by Umbrae but Zora, who is driving, manages to kill her. As day breaks, the Wilsons arrive at the Santa Cruz boardwalk, where they find their own abandoned car on fire. Pluto attempts to kill the Wilsons by lighting a gasoline trail to the Tylers’ car, but Jason, remembering that Pluto mirrors his every move, walks backward so that Pluto steps into the burning car and is killed. Red then reappears and abducts Jason.

While Zora and Gabe recuperate in an abandoned ambulance, Adelaide returns to the boardwalk funhouse and discovers a secret tunnel in the hall of mirrors. This leads to an underground facility overrun by rabbits, where Adelaide finds Red. Red claims that the Tethered were created by the U.S. government in an attempt to control the public, but the experiment failed and the Tethered were abandoned underground. For generations, the Tethered were trapped beneath the surface, doing nothing but mimicking the actions of their counterparts above-ground until Red organized them to escape. The two fight and Adelaide manages to kill Red. She finds Jason hidden in a nearby locker and promises him that things will return to normal.

The family reunites and drives away in the ambulance. As they leave town, Adelaide remembers the night she met Red in the funhouse — but now she remembers that Red knocked the original Adelaide out and trapped her in the underground complex, taking her place in the surface world. As she remembers this, Jason watches her apprehensively. Across the United States, the Tethered join hands.

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