Duplicity |  | Director: Tony Gilroy
Actors: Clive Owen, Tom Wilkinson, Paul Giamatti, Julia Roberts
Studio: Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Category: DVD
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Rating:  67 reviews
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Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Dubbed), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 125 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: 61105482
UPC: 025195046176
EAN: 0025195046176
ASIN: B0029RVZGU
Theatrical Release Date: 2009
Release Date: August 25, 2009
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Product Description
A PAIR OF CORPORATE SPIES WHO SHARE A STEAMY PAST HOOK UP TO PULL OFF THE ULTIMATE CON JOB ON THEIR RESPECTIVE BOSSES.
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Julia Roberts and Clive Owen surprise and delight on multiple levels in Duplicity, a caper film that keeps the audience guessing if the tone is cheeky, seriously, or both in exactly the same scene. Owen smolders as the relaxed, craggy sexual beast he's become--effortlessly--and Roberts is surprisingly mature and tic-less. And their chemistry threatens to explode out of the beaker. On one level, Duplicity is a sparring romance, bringing to mind the no-holds-barred zingers between Cary Grant and Roz Russell in His Girl Friday. But the film has layers of action and suspense, as well as a neat spin on the spy business. Instead of hunting for, or protecting, confidential state nuclear secrets, as each character once did when they first met, now they are beholden to captains of industry and Madison Avenue--seeking secrets not of national security, but of formulas to the next great… moisturizer. Director Tony Gilroy, who wrote all the Bourne films and wrote and directed Michael Clayton is clearly carving out a snappy path for himself as a master of sleek, suspenseful, energetic films that nonetheless appeal to a mass audience. A special shoutout to the opening scene of a mano a mano fistfight on a tarmac between Armani-clad CEOs (one played by an especially memorable Paul Giamatti). "You on one side, me on the other," says Roberts' Claire at one point to Owen's Ray. "It's perfect." Perfect grownup entertainment. --A.T. Hurley
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 Really terrible film February 7, 2010
Tortoise Lover
This film is awful. There is zero chemistry between Clive and Julia, the plot is poorly done, and at the end you are just left thinking, "and what was the point of all that?"
The movie is crap.
Interesting Tryst... January 31, 2010
B. Merritt (WWW.FILMREVIEWSTEW.COM, Pacific Grove, California United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
A confusing yet entertaining romantic spy flick, DUPLICITY tries too hard to be witty but fails due to some forced dialogue and an aging Julia Roberts (Charlie Wilson's War) who doesn't steam up the screen with hunk-meister Clive Owen (Children of Men). The two seem to try and channel Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell from His Girl Friday or perhaps William Powell and Irene Bullock from My Man Godfrey. But neither comparison is needed nor deserved. Those two older classics stand head and shoulders above Duplicity because of their more natural flowing - and straightforward - story and dialogue.
Corporate espionage is nothing new, nor is having the opposite sex bantering back and forth while falling for one another. So, in this respect, Duplicity offers nothing new to grab hold of. It does, however, have the occasional funny pun, mostly thanks to the acting chops of Owen and Roberts but not due to the circumstances surrounding the story (which is not just confusing but impossible and strung out).
Tom Wilkinson (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) shows he's still got "it" even though his role in this film is short-lived. He doesn't have much screen time but what time he does have proves why he's such a talent. His cut-throat corporate nature oozes off the screen.
Paul Giamatti (Shoot 'Em Up) stars as Wilkinson's counterpart and equal bad-boy CEO who will stop at nothing to have the latest and greatest secret out there. The two only appear once together during a tough musical montage on the tarmac, looking like their ready to tear each others intestines out.
The romance is befuddling between Owen's and Roberts' characters, as neither has much of a spark for the other and seems only interested in appeasing corporate and self greed. In this respect, they seem more suited for a lonely rise up the corporate ladder rather than having steamy sex in hotels and apartments. The one thing the two of them DO have (occasionally) is some interesting dialogue where they try to figure out if each of them is playing the other. But that's about it.
The film locations in New York's West Village and Rome Italy is tantalizing but doesn't offer up much substance when compared with the rest of the film.
It is interesting to see Owen and Roberts together again after their exciting tryst in the movie Closer, but if you're looking for something comparable, you won't find it here.
Utterly Awful! January 30, 2010
Baazumi (New York City, NY)
I think the NY Times has lost credibility with the alarmingly good review of this scattered, confusing mess and utterly boring film! As usual Tom Wilkinson and Paul Giamantti were exceptional, Clive Owens believable and sexy, but Julia Roberts was as uncharismatic as I've ever seen her, looking haggard throughout the film, mouthing off like an unhappy 12 year old as she usually does in place of actually acting, flat, bland love scenes with about as much appeal as a bowl of cold oatmeal, a spy story that was so convoluted you had no idea of what was happening, and you wonder just how anyone could praise this film!
 It's a spy film for people who can think January 30, 2010
Ben (New Zealand)
This film - to judge both by the reviews here and by the hubbub over A O Scott's very positive Times review - clearly polarises viewers. I thought it fantastic, with far deeper and more controlled performances by both leads than I've seen previously, together with a solid supporting cast, great locations and a seriously clever script, but for others, evidently, its lack of slickness, predictability and cardboard cutout indications of who's bad, who's good, who's with (or not with) whom has clearly struck a nerve.
It's a good, complicated, and pretty cleverly structured film with stylish but credible performances to match. If you can cope with the notion of a spy thriller that doesn't have a car chase or an explosion and/or a romantic film that doesn't end in a big white wedding - which is, evidently, too much to ask of many reviewers here and elsewhere - grab with both hands.
corporate James Bond January 16, 2010
R. Bagula (Lakeside, Ca United States)
The movie is sort of James Bond without sudden death?
Julia Roberts plays a spy who tricks Clive Owen in the opening
only to later fall for him. They scheme to make a big score in corporate espionage
only to have the tables turned on them.
The plot never really works right or gets dangerous enough
to be really exciting, so the result is a very luke warm film,
but the acting is mostly first rate.
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