Quartile rating: 6/10 · 1 rating
Construction worker Doug Kinney finds that the pressures of his working life, combined with his duties to his wife Laura and daughter Jennifer leaves him with little time for himself. However, he is approached by geneticist Dr. Owen Leeds, who offers Doug a rather unusual solution to his problems: cloning.
Multiplicity has an intriguing comic premise — a harried everyman cloning himself to manage life's demands — but the screenplay fails to develop its central idea with much wit or depth. Michael Keaton does impressive work differentiating the various clone personalities and carries much of the film's energy, but the supporting cast is underused. Visually it's a workmanlike mid-90s studio comedy with the split-screen clone effects being functional rather than dazzling. The cloning-comedy concept grants it some novelty, though the execution leans heavily on predictable sitcom misunderstanding beats. The ending resolves things too neatly and conveniently, deflating any genuine emotional or comic payoff the film had built toward.