Word: doug
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...comeback, the former Republican strategist has become famous for casting a mighty and mysterious spell on the presidency. But the true magic of Morris isn't so much making Clinton understand that the American majority dances to a Republican tune, or extracting great ideas from Mark Penn's and Doug Schoen's zeitgeist-tracking polls, or rummaging through the bureaucracy looking for programs that help the President appear relevant. Morris' gift is to be a psychological trip wire for Clinton, pushing ideological gambits so far across the spectrum that Clinton can just say no. When the consultant wanted Clinton...
...behold, a kindly geneticist notices Kinney's plight and decides to help him--by cloning him. Uh huh. But the more cartoonish this movie gets--a coffee pot bubbles among the complicated looking test-tubes involved in the cloning process--the better it becomes. As Doug, and Doug, and Doug, and Doug try to solve all of the original's problems, they find that the logistics of their parallel existences cause more difficulties than they can handle...
...comedy, and he's at his best when two or three of his manifestations volley the dialogue back and forth between them. Unfortunately, this does leave McDowell somewhat out of the loop; she's given the thankless role of the confused wife, struggling, crying and finally running away while Doug clumsily deals with his strange identity crisis...
When the movie tries to step a little beyond its silliness, the theory is that the original Doug has a little of each of these in him, and he has to use this experience to find himself and so on. But there's really no need for the film to be anything but a fun, flaky little saunter into the wacky world of personal replication...
...been used everywhere from Shakespeare's A Comedy of Errors to "The Patty Duke Show" to "Parent Trap." But the technology in "Multiplicity" is seamless, and Keaton does a good job of giving each of his xeroxes a distinct (if somewhat stereotyped) personality. There's the first, harried Doug, who loses serious likeability points for suggesting his wife quit her new job because even with two of him, he can't handle taking care of the kids. The second Doug, who takes over the construction job, becomes macho and tough. The third Doug is a sensitive, caring type...