To work together, using the corporate rivalry to their advantage, they would have to trust one another - difficult, if not impossible.

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| Edit, It's an old spy trick in which one spy can communicate with another. Who and why are the two men fighting during the opening scene?

With Julia Roberts, Clive Owen, Tom Wilkinson, Paul Giamatti. Flashbacks fill us in: is it coincidence that he sees her in Grand Central? They're both such incurable operatives that neither one can trust the other.

Five years ago. The fun is in watching Roberts and Owen fencing with dialogue, keeping straight faces, trying to read each other's minds. However, they distract each other in more ways than one. The film was released on March 20, 2009. He assumes that people from the other company are spying on him, too, and the double is to throw the spies off track.

All the money they hope to steal, added together, wouldn't amount to an annual bonus for one of the bankruptcy masterminds.

Claire insists she had not been, but she ends up going back to his hotel room with him. Roberts is amusingly inscrutable as she listens.

It seems she had been on a mission and is stealing some important documents from him. The scene's wordless parallelism and bilateral symmetry—identical corporate jets, except for the paint jobs, parked opposite one another outside identical hangers, with each CEO being trailed by identical cadres of subordinates—also made the visual point that these were evenly matched, and indeed nearly fungible, corporate rivals.

Duplicity starts out in Dubai at an outdoor party. Duplicity is based on a screenplay by American filmmaker Tony Gilroy, who also directed the movie.

In about a week, one of the firms is going to announce a revolutionary product.

Or, is one playing the other? |

Edit, The guys fighting in the opening scene are Richard Garsik (Paul Giamatti) and Howard Tully (Tom Wilkinson), the CEOs of the two rival companies. Parents Guide. External Reviews What's consistent through all of the intrigues is the (certain) lust and (possible) love between them. We're not even sure they trust themselves. We were watching this on a plane yesterday and as we were landing they stopped the movie with I'm guessing 10-15 minutes left. This isn't a two-hander; Gilroy uses his supporting cast for key roles. Ray (Clive Owen) walks up to Claire (Julia Roberts) and says he noticed they had been checking each other out. What are the corporate jets in the first scene. She burns him in Dubai.

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That, and admiring the awesome technology that goes into corporate espionage. Carrie Preston steals a scene from Roberts with her hilarious role as a company travel agent who may have been seduced by Ray but bubbles over about how glad she is that it happened. In 1975, he won the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished criticism.

We then cut to several shots of a drugged Ray lying on his bed while Claire searches his room and checks his pulse.

Claire insists she had not been, but she ends up going back to his hotel room with him. Edit, Awards | Tom Wilkinson and Paul Giamatti play the two enemy soap tycoons, both consumed by desperate intensity.

That's fun, but it deprives Roberts of her most winning note, which is lovability. This removes some of the romantic risk from the story, replacing it with a plot so ingenious that at the end, we know more or less what happened, but mostly less. Synopsis "Duplicity" is entertaining, but the complexities of its plot keep it from being really involving: When nothing is as it seems, why care? | The theory is, they'll scheme together to steal the formula, sell it in Switzerland, split millions and spend the rest of their lives spying on each other under the covers. Rated PG-13

Edit, In the end Claire and Ray discovered they were used by Howard Tully so that he could humiliate his rival company, Equikrom. Under the guise of helping that corporation's rival, can Ray and Claire work their own theft and find an independent buyer?

In the end Claire and Ray discovered they were used by Howard Tully so that he could humiliate his rival company, Equikrom. Edit, They are both Cessna Citation 650 models.

Julia Roberts and Clive Owen generate fierce electricity in "Duplicity," but we (and they) don't know if it's romantic or wicked. Directed by Tony Gilroy. for language and some sexual content, The Mandalorian Faces Lies and Krykna in Chapter 10: The Passenger, Miles Morales Swings Players into the Future of Gaming, Lasting Fright: The Staying Power of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Mr. The plot follows two corporate spies with a romantic history who collaborate to carry out a complicated con.

Two ex-government agents turned rival industrial spies have to be at the top of their game when one of their companies prepares to launch a major product.

Ray (Clive Owen) walks up to Claire (Julia Roberts) and says he noticed they had been checking each other out. Soul! Duplicity is a 2009 American romantic crime comedy film written and directed by Tony Gilroy, and starring Julia Roberts and Clive Owen.

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Both now work in industrial security for corporate giants whose CEOs hate each other. I don't understand why Wall Street executives deserve millions, but I can see why these two might. It seems she had been on a mission and is … Unbeknownst to all, Pam ( Kathleen Chalfant ) was a mole for Burkett & Randle (shown at 1:49:32) and she probably found out that Claire and Ray were together and were planning a big con in the future. We then cut to several shots of a drugged Ray lying on his bed while Claire searches his room and checks his pulse. They both enter the private sector, working for the counterespionage departments of competing shampoo giants. User Reviews

Nothing is as it seems, or even as it seems to seem; triple-crosses are only the warm-up. Duplicity starts out in Dubai at an outdoor party. Using this knowledge, Howard Tully (Tom Wilkinson) created a story about a revolutionary product (which doesn't exist) in order to entice Claire into believing that this would be the product she and Ray were going to steal.

Claire and Ray seem to have hollow hearts. Taglines However, they distract each other in more ways than one. At stake: The formula for a top-secret formula that, when revealed, does indeed seem to be worth the high-tech games being played to steal and protect it.