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Duplicity

2009 · 125 min

A sleek, talky cat-and-mouse romance where glamorous spies trade barbs and double-crosses; cool, clever and more pleasurable in its wit than its plot.

Directed by
Tony Gilroy
Genres
Romance, Comedy, Crime
Tagline
She's ex-CIA. He's ex-MI6. Together they're stealing a fortune.
Overview
Two romantically involved government operatives Claire Stenwick and Ray Koval team up to manipulate a race between opposing corporations to corner the market on a medical innovation that will reap huge profits and allow them to lead an extravagant lifestyle together. They find themselves on opposing sides as corporate spies; however, as they each try to outdo the other, neither one can decide how far to trust the other in this high-stakes game of cat-and-mouse.

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Directed by
Tony Gilroy
Genres
Romance, Comedy, Crime
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Tone
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • romanticstrength 2 of 3
  • cynicalstrength 2 of 3
  • satiricalstrength 2 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • deception
  • betrayal
  • love
  • obsession
  • corruption
Places
  • big city
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • nonlinear
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action4
Horror0
Humour6
Realism6
Romance7
Tension5
Darkness3
Complexity8
Emotional weight4

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Genres
romance, comedy, crime
Directed by
Tony Gilroy
Written by
Tony Gilroy
Starring
Julia Roberts, Clive Owen, Tom Wilkinson, Paul Giamatti, Tom McCarthy, Denis O'Hare, Kathleen Chalfant, Wayne Duvall
Music
James Newton Howard
Cinematography
Robert Elswit
Runtime
125 min
Country
Germany, United States of America
Languages
English, German, Russian, Spanish

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