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The answer is No, not officially. However this film does have several differences between the storylines. This allowed them to bypass buying the original rights.

The film also has quite a few similarities to The 'burbs (1989), an early Tom Hanks film.

There is also a lot of resemblance with The Girl Next Door (2004) - a young boy spying on his newly moved in, extremely hot neighbor girl. Also some scenes seem to be almost exactly copied from this movie: the scene when Ashley, still wet after swimming in the pool, goes to Kale's house and he is accompanied by his friend, is almost the same as the one in 'The Girl Next Door' when Matthew is visited by all wet Danielle.

DreamWorks Studio and Universal Pictures have been accused of copyright infringement by the current owners of author Cornell Woolrich's short story, which inspired Hitchcock's 1954 classic thriller.