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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 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 8 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.
