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:  75 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): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: 025195046176
UPC: 025195046176
EAN: 0025195046176
ASIN: B0029RVZGU
Theatrical Release Date: 2009
Release Date: August 25, 2009
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DUPLICITY (DVD) (ENG SDH/SPAN/FREN/DOL DIG 5.1)
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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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 I loved this movie--and I think I have pretty high standards! March 17, 2010
Jill S. (Larchmont, NY United States)
I'm surprised at the dichotomy of views on this movie. I saw it in the theater, but I found it thoroughly engaging and appealing. I especially loved Clive Owen--Julia Roberts is not the strongest actress, in my opinion--but I thought they had good chemistry and that it was a great cat-and-mouse thriller with lots of twists and turns. It's a great escape!
Duplicity March 14, 2010
Arnita D. Brown (USA)
The Cold War has thawed, and for CIA agents seeking to make an easy mint, the real money is in multinational corporations. CIA officer Claire Stenwick and Ray Koval are both racing to secure the formula for a product that will bring untold wealth to the company that lands the patent first as the stakes begin to rise, and their passions start to flare. Meanwhile, their mutual employers, industry giant Howerd Tully and trailblazing CEO Dick Garsil start resorting to some seriously underhanded tactics in hope of gaining an advantage over the competition. Loners by definition of their own careers, Claire and Ray engage in a series of schemes and double-crosses while contending with the fact that their mutual attraction could ultimately jeopardize their entire missions. As with any spy movie, a certain amount of complexity in the script is to be expected. However this spy movie adds on plot twists, flash backs, back stabbing and double agents with so much frequency that it left me scratching my head by its end. As an on screen team Julia Roberts and Clive Owen work well together but even their performances were drowned out by the sheer complexity of the script. There are also welcome surprises from the supporting cast, each of whom seemed to have their fair share of witty dialogue. Ultimately the movie is less about a romance between rival spies, and is more about keeping you wondering just how the plot can twist next. "Duplicity" is a fun little spy movie, with some fine performances by Roberts and Owen and plenty of well written dialogue, but it is brought down by the overly complex plot. Enjoyable yet confounding.
Dodo birds coimpeting with peacocks March 14, 2010
Jacques COULARDEAU (OLLIERGUES France)
It is not enough to have two good actors to have a good film. The film is about industrial spying mixed up with some CIA and maybe some more. The spying is a total failure, since the good spies are lured into believing a fake formula was the real one, because they knew nothing about what they were looking for. A spy should maybe have gone to school first to learn how to read some chemical formulas when they have to steal one particular formula, otherwise any scribbling would do. And it does. In other words and in the end I feel as if that film was at least shallow.
Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne, University Paris 8 Saint Denis, University Paris 12 Créteil, CEGID
 Sparks Fly as You Wonder Who is Playing Who March 1, 2010
Ken Douglas (Landlocked in Reno)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have to admit going into this movie I expected a lot of action, chase scenes and flying bullets. What else was I to expect from the man who wrote the screenplay for the three Bourne movies. Plus, Tony Gilroy's directing debut Michael Clayton also led me to believe I'd be seeing something very different up there on the big screen.
This is kind of a spy movie, with an ingenious plot to be sure, but it's a romantic comedy as well. I'm used to seeing Julia Roberts in these kinds of roles, but I'm used to seeing her in action movies too. Not much action in this film. No Jason Bourne character here. In fact the only real action in this movie is the slow motion fight between two oldster corporate execs played by Paul Giamatti and Tom Wilkinson. These two guys hate each other, head mega corporations, are arch rivals and will stop at nothing to sink the other guy's company.
And that's where the Julia Robert's character and the Clive Owen character come it. They're ex-spies (the real deal, CIA her, MI6 him) who are in the business of corporate espionage and who seem to be on again and off again romantically. She's undercover in one firm and he's running her for the other, but they're really in business for themselves, looking for the big score and before you're thinking shades of Ocean's Eleven I have to say this is a deliciously good movie. Not anything like I expected, but wonderful nonetheless.
Julia Roberts just keeps getting better, way more than just a pretty face. The chemistry sparks between her and Clive Owen, so much so that you can feel the heat, even when you're not supposed to.
As for the story, I was confused at first, but after I bit I realized Mr. Gilroy was confusing me on purpose and he did a fine job of it, leading right where he wanted me to go. And he really surprised me with the ending, not what I expected at all. A perfect cap to this fine film where you never really know who is playing who.
 Un-watchable March 1, 2010
M. A Spitzer (Fort Lauderdale, Florida USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Un-watchable is the only word that comes to mind.
My wife and I started to watch this movie. After 30 minutes we looked at each other and agreed neither found it interesting.
But in all fairness, we told ourselves maybe we were not in the right frame of mind and decided to try it again 2 weeks later.
40 minutes into the movie we again agreed not only did it not grab our interest .... it actually discouraged us to watch it.
I can't place my finger on it but the film was actually annoying to try and watch .... like a big effort.
Everything seemed stiff and forced as though a movie was being made under duress.
Very odd.
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