Synopsis
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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Cast
- Michael KeatonDoug Kinney
- Andie MacDowellLaura Kinney
- Harris YulinLeeds
- Eugene LevyVic
- Zack DuhameZack Kinney
- Katie SchlossbergJennifer Kinney
- Richard MasurDel King
- Ann CusackNoreen
- John de LancieTed
- Judith KahanFranny
Recommandations
- 80
Empire
Both assuredly funny without being forced, and smart without being smug, this is one comedy that deserves to go forth and, indeed, multiply. - 80
Variety
The picture provides hilarious complications to the arithmetic mayhem and will be one of the strongest performers in the second half of the summer, its inventive edge standing up to the barrage of flashier effects pics. - 63
Chicago Sun-Times
Watching the film, I enjoyed a lot of it, especially Keaton's permutations on the theme of himself. But I wondered why the possibilities weren't taken to greater comic extremes. - 60
TV Guide Magazine
Despite the obvious potential for comic disaster, the results are only intermittently amusing. Keaton's Kinney is such a selfish, lemon-lipped wet blanket, you can't help wishing he'd been diminished a little with each cloning, until there was nothing left of him at all. - 58
Entertainment Weekly
Ramis’ talented, underused SCTV colleague Eugene Levy makes a brief, welcome appearance as a nuttily dim cement contractor, but he’s a zany interlude in an otherwise muted, unzany tale. - 50
The New York Times
Multiplicity weaves such an uninteresting plot around its bland, generic principals that it rarely reaches the absurdist heights its premise demands. - 50
Time Out
Unfortunately, in trying to rein in the material and impose some kind of closure, the film-makers plump for an inadequate, bourgeois sit-com mode and the movie evaporates before your eyes. Oh well, it was fun while it lasted, and hats off to Michael Keaton, Michael Keaton, Michael Keaton and - very funny in a supporting turn - Michael Keaton. - 50
San Francisco Chronicle
The early scenes are amusing and true to life.
