Tonight's Movie: Duplicity (2009) - A Kino Lorber Blu-ray Review

The very engaging DUPLICITY (2009), a tale of corporate spies in love, has just been released on Blu-ray by Kino Lorber.I first reviewed this film here way back in 2009, and I enjoyed it just as much on this revisit.Julia Roberts, always a favorite of mine, and Clive Owen play the referenced spies, whose relationship and goals only become clear gradually, as the story switches back and forth in time.When you come down to it, Roberts' and Owen's characters are really rather awful people, constantly engaging in lies and theft, but their charm is such that they come off more like the delightful jewel thieves of TROUBLE IN PARADISE (1932), as noted years ago by reviewer Glenn Erickson.We root for Roberts and Owen as anti-heroes of a sort, made easier by the fact that the corporate heads (Paul Giamatti and Tom Wilkinson) they are plotting against aren't likeable in the least.The film has a stellar supporting cast, also including Carrie Preston (THE GOOD WIFE, ELSBETH), Denis O'Hare, Rick…

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