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04/16/01
Duets (2000)
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Reviews Counted:86
Fresh:18
Rotten:68
Average Rating:3.9/10
Consensus: Duets suffers from sloppy direction and stretches credibility. Also, the characters are uninteresting and it's hard to care about what happens to them.
Runtime: 1 hr 52 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: Duets is a road-trip film about six individuals who throw off the binds of their pre-determined lives and strive to fulfill their dreams. The metaphor for this is Karaoke … the courage to stand up,... [More]
Starring: Gwyneth Paltrow, Huey Lewis, Andre Braugher, Paul Giamatti
Director: Bruce Paltrow
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01/26/06
Top CriticAll the principal actors appear to be in pain. Gwyneth looks befuddled by Dad's direction: all she can do is crunch down her eyebrows in despair.
01/01/00
Delightful peculiarities pepper-spice the film.
01/01/00
It's mostly a well-acted, atmospheric little ensemble piece that says something about the soulless center of American society and the karaoke subculture in particular.
01/01/00
Duets is a clumsily constructed motion picture that could have been a lot better with a tighter and more focused script.
01/01/00
The film becomes an endurance test of tedious -- even painful -- labored dialogue and flat, counterfeit emotions.
01/01/00
Watching Duets, you sense the small-screen calculations in John Byrum's script.
01/01/00
There are too many stories going on and too many sitcom solutions, too much unlikely drama, and too little in the way of three-dimensional characters.
01/01/00
Part of the genuine pleasure in Duets is watching these six people experience the joy of singing in Karaoke bars.
01/01/00
The joys of singing give the movie a hook, but when Duets aims for lyricism, it's got a tin ear.
01/01/00
The press notes say the director spent five years developing Duets. He should have developed it more.
01/01/00
Every bit as nauseating, campy, and insignificant as its unappealing premise suggested it would be.
01/01/00
Marquee value of an Academy Award-winning star lifted it up to the big screen -- a step higher than it should have gone.
01/01/00
Top CriticAnd the director's Oscar-winning daughter? Never did I ever think she could ever be so annoying.
01/05/09
Duets could have been filmed in Wisconsin, because it's cheese from head to toe.
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