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Duets (2000)
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Karaoke is a way for average people to get on stage and sing cover songs. In Duets, it's also a money sport. No, really. As with other bar sports (pool, darts), the karaoke-for-money game is rife with hustlers. One such hustler is Ricky Dean (Huey Lewis), who takes time off the karaoke circuit to attend the funeral of his ex-wife, where he meets his estranged daughter (Gwyneth Paltrow) and can't shake her desire to go on the road with him. The other hustler is Suzi Loomis (Maria Bello), a woman who literally prostitutes herself to get from gig to gig, until she meets up with a kind-hearted cabby (Scott Speedman). Then there's Todd...
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"I'm gonna be the only major thing that has happened to you in your life, and you're gonna be jerking off to my memory on your god damned death bed!" Yes, Maria, I will! What a performance from one of my favorites in a movie that has so many layers.
A frustrated salesman (Paul Giamatti) joins up with an escaped convict...
(complete Duets review by B Movie Ben)
| Duets Movie Review by Melanie (6/3/2007) |
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For a movie that has such a fabulous soundtrack, this movie was so-so. I thought the father/daughter relationship between Huey Lewis and Gwyneth Paltrow had some weird romantic overtones and I just kept getting creeped out by that. I loved that almost all the actors (except Andre Braugher) did their own singing. Paul...
(complete Duets review by Melanie)
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(4/11/2007)
