Multiplicity (1996)
Directed by Harold Ramis
Construction worker Doug Kinney finds that the pressures of his working life, combined with his duties to his wife Laura and daughter Jennifer leaves him with little time for himself. However, he is approached by geneticist Dr. Owen Leeds, who offers Doug a rather unusual solution to his problems: cloning.
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Margaret Qualley, similar to her bit part in Poor Things (2023), is fashioned as an ideal feminine body (her rampant abuse of the system also recalls one of her mother Andie MacDowell’s romantic comedies, Multiplicity, 1996).
As is so often the case with a promising first film, Moon ’s strengths are frequently also its weaknesses: Jones’ surreal visuals of gigantic mineral harvesters spewing moondust and inverted earths rising in fields of stars are lush bordering on portentous, and Nathan Parker’s script is weighty enough to recall both Tarkovsky and Kubrick but hasn’t got quite enough heft to make you forget Michael Keaton in Harold Ramis’s Multiplicity .
As we meet Kevin’s alters, the film becomes a stage for McAvoy to unleash a whole repertoire of personas—rather like Michael Keaton in Multiplicity , only without the costly CGI.
Identical-twin performances have been attempted before (from Jeremy Irons's creep gynecologists in Dead Ringers to the forcibly wacky hijinks of Michael Keaton's many selves in Multiplicity ), but never has the cinematic trick been so convincing as it is here.
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It’s Bond’s Moonraker meets Groundhog Day meets Multiplicity with Starship Troopers thrown in for good measure.