According to a lawsuit filed in Manhattan federal court on Monday, Stephen Spielberg and some major Hollywood players stole a plot from Alfred Hitchcock's 1954 film Rear Window to make last year's Disturbia. Film companies Dreamworks, parent company Viacom Inc., and Universal Studios, a unit of General Electric Co.'s NBC Universal were named as defendants in the copyright-infringement/breach of contract suit.
Both films tell the story of a man who witnesses strange behavior in a neighbor's home while peering through a rear window.
Perhaps The New York Times's review of Disturbia as "a kind of adolescent Rear Window" could have foreshadowed the lawsuit?
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