All 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.
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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
Box Office: $2,002,588
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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Reviews for Duets
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
Top CriticThe 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
Top CriticThe press notes say the director spent five years developing Duets. He should have developed it more.
01/01/00
Top CriticEvery 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.
01/01/00
Its fundamental error is that it tries to squeeze bittersweet heartbreak and goofy social satire into the same story. Just when the movie gets the rhythm, it steps on its own feet.
01/01/00
Top CriticIt's like a white platter party for people scared of rap music.
01/01/00
The karaoke pieces are terrific.
01/01/00
Substitute 'bland' for 'blonde' and you've got a pretty good description of [Paltrow's] movie.
01/01/00
Top CriticOK, it got to me.
01/01/00
Top CriticA lack of adequate character development makes much of the film hard to swallow. So does its hokey central plot device.
01/01/00
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