Movies - Duets

	Movies - Duets

Duets is a road-trip comedy film released in 2000, co-produced and directed by Bruce Paltrow.

The movie revolves around the little known world of karaoke and the whimsical characters who inhabit it. There's the struggling singer who dreams of making it to the big time, a frustrated salesman (Paul Giamatti) who ends up on an unexpected road trip, the dysfunctional family performers which includes a con-artist (Huey Lewis) and his long lost daughter (Gwyneth Paltrow), and an escaped convict (Andre Braugher) with the voice of an angel.

All roads lead to Omaha, site of a national karaoke competition where this motley group of singers and stars come together for a blow-out sing-off.

The characters, who are searching to find their way in the world, use both music and the people they find in the karaoke bars as a way to alleviate the pressures of life and in the process conect with one another and form interesting friendships.

Each of the singers display their own unique and special talents which are funny and endearing as well. The characters in this eccentric film perform many well known cover songs throughout the film with much flair, finesse, and vocal acuity.

Cast

Maria Bello
as Suzi Loomis
Andre Braugher
as Reggie Kane
Paul Giamatti
as Todd Woods
Huey Lewis
as Ricky Dean
Gwyneth Paltrow
as Liv
Scott Speedman
as Billy Hannan
Lochlyn Munro
as Ronny Jackson

Quotes

Todd Woods: I can't go back to who I was. I'm different now. I sing.
Suzi Loomis: 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 goddamned death bed!
Liv: My mother didn't believe in mayonnaise. She didn't believe in food that requires electricity.

Taglines

Six lost souls in search of a little harmony.

Trivia

This was the only time Gwyneth Paltrow and her producer/director father Bruce Paltrow worked together on a film project.
Film locations: Las Vegas, Nevada, and British Columbia, Canada.
Brad Pitt was first cast in Speedman's role, but, after he and Gwyneth Paltrow announced the end of their off-camera romance, Pitt decided not to take the role.
Film critics Roger Ebert and Richard Roeper gave the film "a thumbs up."

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