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Housesitter (1992)

★ 6.1 · 464 ratings on TMDB

She's turning his house into a home...hers!

Housesitter poster★ 6.1

Con artist Gwen moves into Newton's empty home without his knowledge and begins setting up house, posing as his new wife.

DirectorFrank Oz
CastChristopher Durang, Dana Delany, Donald Moffat, Goldie Hawn, Julie Harris, Laurel Cronin
GenresComedy, Romance
The emergence reading

Housesitter keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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Same rung, same subject

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Same subject, different rung

The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.

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Same people

Shared director or cast.

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