The Lodger is a 2009 mystery/thriller film directed by David Ondaatje and starring Alfred Molina, Hope Davis and Simon Baker. It is based on the novel The Lodger by Marie Belloc Lowndes, filmed previously by Alfred Hitchcock in 1927, by Maurice Elvey in 1932, by John Brahm in 1944, and as Man in the Attic (1953) directed by Hugo Fregonese.
The film follows two parallel storylines, one being about a troubled detective (Molina) who plays a cat-and-mouse game with an unknown killer, and the other being about an emotionally disturbed landlady and her relationship with her enigmatic "lodger" (Simon Baker).
Storyline 1:
Storyline 2:
The film premiered on January 23, 2009 in limited release in New York and Los Angeles, and was released on DVD on February 10, 2009.
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