Multiplicity (1996)

Rated: ![]()
Starring: Michael Keaton, Andie MacDowell.
Director: Harold Ramis
Edition Details:
• Region 1 encoding (US and Canada only)
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of our international customers have had problems playing these enhanced discs
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• Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen
• Theatrical trailer(s)
• Full-screen and widescreen anamorphic formats
Editorial Reviews
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 --