Multiplicity (film)
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| Directed by | Harold Ramis |
| Produced by | Harold Ramis |
| Written by | Chris Miller Mary Hale Lowell Ganz Babaloo Mandel |
| Starring | Michael Keaton Andie MacDowell Eugene Levy |
| Cinematography | László Kovács |
| Editing by | Craig Herring |
| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
| Release date(s) | July 17, 1996 |
| Running time | 117 min. |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $45,000,000 |
Multiplicity is a 1996 film starring Michael Keaton and Andie MacDowell. The film was produced and directed by Harold Ramis.
Doug Kinney (Michael Keaton) finds his time stretched to the limit between his wife, career and family, until he meets a scientist who offers to clone him. Of course, one clone ends up not being enough and soon he has an attic full of them - all played by Keaton and each with a different personality - while his unsuspecting wife (Laura Kinney, played by Andie MacDowell) wonders what on earth is going on.
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[edit] Synopsis
In the movie Keaton's character, Doug Kinney, is a stressed-out family man who meets up with a scientist who has developed a successful means for cloning humans. The scientist allows Doug to make a clone of himself that can take over for him at work, while he tries to spend some quality time with his family. The clone, called "Two" (while having all the knowledge, memory and experience of Doug), turns out to be overly macho and easily irritated, suffering a residual personality quirk of the cloning process.
Eventually two more clones are made. "Three", in sharp contrast to two, is extremely sensitive and thoughtful ("Two" considers him a 'wuss'). "Four" is cloned from "Two", and has the mentality of an overly-curious child. Unfortunately since he is a clone-of-a-clone, his IQ is considerably lower than that of his predecessors, since the personality defects are more pronounced when a clone is cloned (The analogy from the movie refers to how a copy of a copy may not be as 'sharp' as the original). One night Doug leaves home for a business trip. While Doug is gone each of the clones run into Laura and each one sleeps with her. The next day "Two" comes down with a cold and can't go to work, so he sends "Three". As "Three" goes to work not knowing a thing about construction, an inspection on site is on that day. "Three" unimpresses the inspector which leads to him losing Doug's job. As the movie progresses, Doug's wife becomes increasingly upset with her husband, not realizing that many times she is speaking to a clone. After she pours out her heart to "Four", mentioning how he (Doug) has never kept his promise on fixing the house, she asks him what he wants and is unromantically told "I want pizza". Upset, she takes the children to live with her parents. When Doug returns he learns that Laura and the kids have left. He also learns from the clones' confessions that he has lost his job and each one of them have slept with Laura. Trying to figure out how to get Laura back, "Four" tells him about what she said to him on how he never fixed the house. With the help of the clones, Doug remodels the house and wins back the love of his wife. With their purposes served, the three clones leave and set up a pizza shop called "Three Men from Nowhere". There "Two" becomes the business man of the shop, "Three" is the chef and "Four" is unfortunately the delivery boy.
[edit] Cast
| Actor | Role |
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| Michael Keaton | Doug Kinney/Two/Three/Four |
| Andie MacDowell | Laura Kinney |
| Zack Duhame | Zack Kinney |
| Katie Schlossberg | Jennifer Kinney |
| Harris Yulin | Dr. Leeds |
| Richard Masur | Del King |
| Eugene Levy | Vic |
| Ann Cusack | Noreen |
| John de Lancie | Ted |
| Judith Kahan | Franny |
| Brian Doyle-Murray | Walt |
| Obba Babatundé | Paul |
| Julie Bowen | Robin |
| Dawn Maxey | Beth |
| Kari Coleman | Patti |
[edit] DVD
The film was first released to DVD on April 15, 1998, shortly after the format debuted; it was a single disc release featuring the ability to watch the film either in widescreen or in fullscreen but not featuring any bonus materials.
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