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Multiplicity [Region 2] | ![Multiplicity [Region 2]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/311P3VDHT0L._SL500_.jpg)
| Director: Harold Ramis
Actors: Michael Keaton, Andie Macdowell, Zack Duhame, Katie Schlossberg, Harris Yulin
Category: DVD
Buy Used: $25.69
Rating:  49 reviews
Sales Rank: 204765
Format: Pal
Languages: German (Original Language), English (Original Language), German (Subtitled), English (Subtitled), Turkish (Subtitled), Danish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Norwegian (Subtitled), Swedish (Subtitled)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 2
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 24250
EAN: 4030521242500
ASIN: B00004RYDX
Theatrical Release Date: July 17, 1996
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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An inevitable idea: a working man (Michael Keaton) who can't meet all his professional and family responsibilities has himself cloned. It works so well having one copy of himself to take charge of matters at the office that he makes another copy who takes care of the home front. Pretty soon, different aspects of Keaton's personality are emphasized in the different clones: the laborer becomes a macho creep and the domestic god becomes rather feminine. A third clone, struck from the duplicates instead of the original, becomes like a photocopy of a photocopy: inferior. This timely comedy should be better than it is, but special-effects requirements are so labor-intensive that most scenes feel stiff and leaden. Keaton is good in all four parts, and in certain gee-whiz effects scenes, where he even high-fives himself, he pulls off a minor miracle or two. (Of course, a kid did the same thing in Disney's 1998 remake of The Parent Trap.) The DVD release includes optional widescreen and standard formats and optional French and Spanish soundtracks. --Tom Keogh
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| Customer Reviews: Read 44 more reviews...
 Three Guys From Nowhere May 27, 2009
Richard Schulman (Bristol)
I love this movie. Each time I see it I marvel at the acting, particularly
Michael Keaton. Jeeze Louize is there anything he can't do. Andi MacDowel
is as charming as ever and as lovable. I could watch this movie forever.
The movie is so funny I just smile thinking about it.
We're gonna eat a dolphin! April 26, 2009
T. Weik
Michael Keaton is Doug, an overworked husband and father. He is being pulled in a hundred different directions, so he clones himself. Problems solved... right?
I really like this film. Keaton does a great job of playing four separate Dougs. The clones get the best lines in this movie, and I still find myself quoting #4 all the time.
A sweet movie about making time for your family, this film takes an original approach. It doesn't try to be anything more than cute, and I think it works.
 You know how when you make a copy of a copy, it's not as sharp as... well... the original March 17, 2009
C. CRADDOCK (Bakersfield)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Contractor Doug Kinney (Michael Keaton) is under a lot of pressure at work. There just aren't enough hours in the day.
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Ted: We'll have to put in more hours. This isn't just a nine-to-five job. There is a saying where I worked last. "If you don't come in on Saturday, don't bother coming in on Sunday."
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One (or two, as it turns out) of his clients offers a solution. Cloning. Did you ever wish you could be in two places at once, like, have your clone go to work while you sat around eating pizza and watching TV? He goes for it, and his clone, a gung ho workaholic, starts going to his job early and staying late. He fires Vic (Eugene Levy), the undependable sub contractor from Dependeble (sic) Concrete (how dependable can you be when you misspell dependable in your own company name?); and without the distractions of a home life, whips his job into shape.
Meanwhile, Doug tries becoming a stay-at-home husband, while his wife Laura (Andie MacDowell) returns to her career in Real Estate. Taking care of the house and kids is not as easy as he thought it would be, so he gets another clone. While Doug #2 was a leaner, meaner version of himself, #3 expresses his feminine, nurturing side. But even with 2 clones, they still need more help.
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Doug Kinney #2: My life's a shambles. I need pie.
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They decide to make another clone, only this one, a clone of a clone, doesn't turn out so well.
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Doug Kinney #3: You know how when you make a copy of a copy, it's not as sharp as... well... the original.
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If this was a remake of another film, this would be a great opportunity for a clever put down--but it's an original idea based on a short story by Chris Miller, who also wrote the screenplay. In fact, my criticism of this movie is not that it's derivative, but rather, it takes a great idea with the perfect cast, and doesn't quite live up to its potential. Michael Keaton, playing 4 distinct versions of Doug Kinney could have really cleaned up with this role, but he failed to rise above the benchmark set by Jim Varney in Ernest Goes to Jail (1990). In this classic Varney plays not only Ernest P. Worrell but also hardened criminal Mr. Felix Nash, as well as Auntie Nelda. Talk about your importance of being Ernest.
As anyone who has seen Michael Keaton's work in Night Shift (1982), Beetle Juice (1988), or Speechless (1994) can tell you, there is no one quite like him. That's why the notion of cloning him is so intriguing, yet so disappointing. Somehow it is just not as funny as you thought it would be. The other aspect of the story, a philosophical rumination on time, life, and what really matters, also fizzles out. Multiplicity did leave me pondering such matters, but mostly I wondered whether Keaton received a quadruple salary for his quadruple role.
SELECTED FILM ROLES OF MICHAEL KEATON
Speechless (1994) .... Kevin Vallick
Batman (Two-Disc Special Edition) (1989) .... Batman / Bruce Wayne
Clean and Sober (1988) .... Daryl Poynter
Beetlejuice (1988) .... Beetlejuice
Night Shift (1982) .... Bill Blazejowski
SELECTED FILM ROLES OF ANDIE MACDOWELL
The Muse (1999) .... Laura Phillips
Bad Girls (Extended Cut) (1994) .... Eileen Spenser
Hudson Hawk (1991) .... Anna Baragli
sex, lies, and videotape (1989) .... Ann Bishop Mullany
St. Elmo's Fire (1985) .... Dale Biberman
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Doug Kinney #1: [to#4] I'm gonna buy you something...
Doug Kinney #4: [to#1] A chainsaw?
Doug Kinney #1: [to#4] ... Or a book...
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 Just pretty bad as a comedy goes? January 7, 2009
R. Bagula (Lakeside, Ca United States)
Strange low budget Sci Fi comedy that when it isn't predictable is somewhat boring. The cloning is a joke from a bad B movie.
In one of the starting scenes Keaton's make up is bad and he
kooks like he has a bad skin disease? Keaton's acting is good on the four distinct personalities, but the dialog doesn't make use of the comedy situations. MacDowell mainly does sexy and reads her lines.
These two deserve a better written comedy that has more believable action and dialog. My conclusion is that it was a production line movie with bad oversight and quality control: a Hollywood screw up.
A rather insipid take on a somewhat engaging subject... November 20, 2008
Andrew Ellington (Mulholland Drive)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Michael Keaton is somewhat of an acquired taste. He is funny sometimes, even outright hysterical (take `Beetlejuice' for instance) but other times he just wares on my patience. `Multiplicity' is one of those films that works in parts, but not entirely, and that is mostly due to Keaton's uneven performance. Well, and the fact that Andie MacDowell didn't have any strong direction to squeeze goodness out of her.
The script is also rather ridiculous, but I think we expect that from a film like this.
Keaton plays Doug Kinney, a construction worker who has a wife and two kids and absolutely no time to spend with them. His wife wants to go back to work but there is just no way that Doug can fit it into his schedule to help out around the house. That is until this Dr. confronts him about cloning. Doug is apposed and then all for it and before you know it there is another Doug (called #2) who is living above the garage. Now Doug can spend time with his kids while #2 goes to work. Then Doug realizes that he is so busy at home he has no time for himself and so we get #3, the sensitive stay at home Doug who takes care of the house and the children while Doug is playing golf. But when things get too much for #2 and #3 to handle they take it upon themselves to bring home #4 and it's about then that everything starts to fall apart.
The film could have had a better outcome had the premise been treated with a little more respect. Instead, director Harold Ramis and writer Chris Miller went for the slapstick, easy gags. The film is rather brainless.
Michael Keaton is pretty good as Doug, and I liked the way he played off the sensitive side of #3, but his take on #2 was kind of obnoxious and his mimicry of Steve Martin's hilarious turn in `Dirty Rotten Scoundrels' was rather unnecessary and ridiculous (notice how #4 refers to everyone as Steve...not a coincidence I guaranty you). Andie MacDowell, as I have mentioned before, is usually boring and dull. In fact, it takes a really strong and influential director to bring out the good in her (great in her is you take into account her work with Altman and Soderbergh) and Ramis is not a strong director.
In other words; she's dreadful here.
The film has its funny moments but the lack of natural charm and any real comedic weight make this film more of a dud than a hit. I wish that I could say something better for the film. My wife loves it. I on the other hand do not. I give it a low C.
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