The Man in My Basement (2025)
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A struggling man faces a mysterious proposition when a businessman offers to rent his basement for a specific period.
The story
Charles Blakey, an African American man living in Sag Harbor, is currently stuck in a rut and facing the loss of his ancestral home. His situation changes when a peculiar white businessman approaches him with an unusual offer: to rent out his basement for a period of 65 days.
Full plot (contains spoilers)
Charles Blakey, an African American man living in Sag Harbor, is stuck in a rut, out of luck, and about to lose his ancestral home when a peculiar white businessman offers to rent his basement for 65 days.
- First release year
- 2025
- Runtime (minutes)
- 115
- Production countries
- United States; United Kingdom
- Original languages
- English
- Directors
- Nadia Latif
- Writers
- Walter Mosley · writer; Nadia Latif · writer
- Cast and characters
- Corey Hawkins · Charles Blakey; Willem Dafoe · Anniston Bennet; Anna Diop · Narciss Gully; Tamara Lawrance · Bethany
- Genres
- thriller
- Themes
- struggle; mystery
- Tone and mood
- thriller
- Setting
- Sag Harbor
- Premise and plot tags
- mystery; thriller; basement
- Source material / true-story basis
- Walter Mosley's 2004 novel The Man in My Basement
- Reception
- Metacritic assigned the film a score of 51 out of 100, based on 14 critics, indicating "mixed or average" reviews.
- Reported review scores
- Metacritic · score: 51 · scale: 100 · review count: 14
- Production trivia
- Jonathan Majors was originally cast as Charles Blakey and served as an executive producer before being fired.; Principal photography began in Cardiff, Wales.
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