Secret Mall Apartment (2024)

Directed by

Jeremy Workman

Genre

documentary film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 32m

Rated

12

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 30 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A group of young Rhode Islanders secretly build and live in an apartment inside a shopping mall for four years. They film their daily life there with cheap cameras until they are caught.

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What happens

Secret Mall Apartment is a 2024 American documentary film directed by filmmaker Jeremy Workman that recounts the story of a group of young Rhode Islanders who built a secret apartment inside the Providence Place shopping mall in Providence in 2003, living there for four years until getting caught and charged with trespassing in 2007. The documentary was a moderate box office success, including an extended run at the theater in the mall that housed the apartment in question. It achieved greater success on Netflix, where by January 2026, it had become one of the top five more viewed programs on that platform. The group filmed much of their activity in the secret apartment with inexpensive Pentax Optio cameras that they purchased at the mall's RadioShack. The story of the secret apartment had been urban legend for many years, and the documentary brought together the original eight participants for the first time in 17 years. Secret Mall Apartment marks the second collaboration between Workman and actor Jesse Eisenberg, who serves as one of the film's producers, following their collaboration on the 2018 documentary The World Before Your Feet. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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