Multiplicity (1996) Hey what's up guys. Today I'll
show you a comedy-romance film: "Multiplicity"! Spoiler ahead, watch out and take care!
The movie begins with a construction team head named Doug, rushing to a construction site where
his team is working that morning. When he arrives, the workers are busy demolishing
the driveway of a house. The problem is that they are working on the wrong driveway. Doug's foreman
had given the team the wrong address, and now it's going to be double the work for them.
This causes Doug to get in trouble with his bosses at the construction firm.
He promises to do what it takes to complete the work on the two driveways.
But this only results in more problems for Doug. He's already struggling to spend time
with his family and do well in his job. When he gets home, his wife is upset with him,
because he keeps promising to fix the water heater in their shower, but he doesn't do it. He
also missed his daughter's girl scout graduation that day. He apologizes and explains that he got
assigned more projects at work. The wife protests, saying that he hardly has time for his family now,
what more if he does more projects. Doug assures her that he will still spend time with them.
The next morning, the wife gets a call from an old co-worker of hers, offering her a position
at their company. The wife had quit her job as a real estate agent to raise their children.
But she and Doug always discuss that she will go back to work eventually. However,
with Doug being busy at work, if she works too, there would be no one to take care of the kids.
The wife wants Doug to compromise and help out more with childcare and house chores.
Doug explodes at this because he's already under so much pressure at work. After he screams,
he apologizes to his wife, who is now crying. He goes to work on the new project he's assigned
to. It's a research institute building. But something goes wrong in the basement
they're constructing, and Doug gets angry again. He steps outside for fresh air,
and he meets the doctor who leads the institute. The doctor asks Doug to call him.
Doug assumes that the doctor is a psychiatrist. He sets up a session, and shares his family and
work problems with the doctor. But he is not a psychiatrist. He is a geneticist whose specialty
is cloning. Ten years ago, he successfully cloned an earthworm. A few years later,
he cloned a chimp. Then recently, he perfected the human cloning process. At that moment,
the doctor's clone steps inside the room wearing a Hawaiian shirt. The doctor tells Doug that the
procedure only lasts a couple of hours, and that having clones will solve all of his problems.
Doug agrees to do the cloning. He goes under anesthesia,
and the doctor and his team operate on him. The clone, named Two, wakes up on the hospital
bed. He has all of Doug's memories, mannerisms, and personality up until the moment of cloning.
He even believes that he's the original Doug. Doug and Two go home together. He hides Two in his
attic, and tells him to stay there. His wife arrives, and Doug goes outside to greet her.
While he's busy with his family, Two heads to the office early to get work done.
Doug is surprised to see that Two is busy being on top of the projects he has going on.
This leaves him enough time to attend his son's soccer game. The son's team is currently losing,
so Doug suggests a new strategy. The coach gets fed up with all the complaining parents,
so he resigns and appoints Doug as the new football coach. His son is
delighted to spend some time with his dad. When his wife gets home, she's surprised to see
that Doug has already cooked dinner and set the table. He lies, telling her that he got a new
assistant at work, who will be sharing the burden with him. He promises that he will be more present
in their family from now on. He also tells her to take that real estate job offer she got.
Two turns out to be much more aggressive and masculine than Doug. He fires his no-good
foreman for being an hour late. Doug has always been too shy to fire him despite
the foreman's many mistakes; but Two has more courage than him, so he finally does it.
Later that day, the wife calls Two on his work cellphone, thinking he's Doug.
She's running late because of a client showing, and someone needs
to pick their daughter up and get her ready for picture-taking day in her ballet class.
Two nonchalantly agrees, and gives Doug some vague details regarding the wife's instructions.
Doug is in the middle of a golf session, so he hurriedly goes home.
But his daughter does not want to cooperate, and he has a hard time giving her a bath and
getting her dressed. After some tiring efforts, he gets her ready and drops her off at ballet.
The next night, Doug treats his wife out to dinner. But it's all just an excuse,
so he can tell her to quit working and go back to being a housewife. He reasons that he barely
has any time to actually work, because he's too busy taking care of the kids. His wife replies
that she has been doing housework for a decade, while he's only been doing it for a month.
What Doug doesn't know is that Two is on a date in that same restaurant, with a secretary working
at his firm. He chokes at the sight of Two, and immediately attempts to prevent his wife from
seeing his clone. Two has been very lonely sleeping by himself and having no friends,
so he takes the secretary out for some female companionship.
Two and Doug manage to escape the restaurant without being seen.
Doug decides to create a third clone named Three, who will help out with his household chores.
Three turns out to be very gentle and effeminate, and he loves to clean and bake.
Now, Doug has more time for leisurely pursuits like sailing. But Three and Two quickly get out of
control. One night, he gets home from a basketball game, and discovers that Three is in bed with his
wife. He grabs his clone, and takes him back to the guest house where he and Two are staying.
He reprimands them, and tells them that they're not allowed to sleep with the wife.
On another night, he discovers that Three and Two are throwing a party with two other girls.
Doug throws the two girls out. He decrees that they will no longer create any clones.
This comes a little late, because Three and Two have created another clone named Four.
However, Four is a bit dumb, since he is a copy of a copy. He is practically useless and just
stumbles around, making mistakes. Things start to get confusing at home,
because the wife is now having conflicting conversations with the different clones.
Doug finds this exhausting, and he plans to go away on a sailing trip to escape his problems.
He leaves the clones in charge, with strict instructions not to sleep with his wife.
When Doug is away, the hormone-rich wife persistently seduces each of the three clones into
plowing her grassy but fertile farm-land. First, she seduces Three in their bedroom. Afterward,
Two sneaks into the kitchen for a snack, and sees the wife inside. She seduces him there. Finally,
she also seduces the babbling Four. She thinks it's Doug every time.
Someday later, Two gets sick because he went out into the rain the other night.
He's unable to go to work, but he has a very important building inspection
scheduled for that day. As a result, Three goes to work for him, but he
doesn't know anything about the project. He can't explain how the whole building
works to the inspector. The inspector puts a stop to all their construction work there,
and threatens to suspend the firm's license too. Doug's boss gets mad and fires him.
This puts Two in a terrible mood. When the wife tries to talk to him, he snaps at her. She later
approaches Four in the garage, thinking that he is Doug. She tries to get him to open up, and explain
why he's been acting so erratically lately. But since Four is an idiot, he merely babbles that
he wants some pizza. This hurts the wife, and she thinks that Doug simply does not care about her or
their marriage. She walks out of the house. Meanwhile, Doug is not enjoying his sailing
trip at all. He gets extremely seasick, and vomits out the side of the boat. That evening,
he finally realizes that he misses his family very much, and that it was a mistake to try and
pawn off his responsibilities to his clones. He immediately disembarks and returns home.
But when he gets home, he sees the three clones splay out in front of the TV, and his wife and
kids are gone. He discovers that in the one day he is gone, his life has been wrecked to bits. He has
lost both his job and his family, just as when he has gained a brand new perspective on life.
Doug sits down at the kitchen table, while Four is absent-mindedly munching on a sandwich.
The dumb clone begins to parrot everything that the wife has complained about to Doug,
including the fact that he never fixes the things in the house he promised to fix.
This gives Doug the idea to remodel the house, as a way to show his wife that he has changed.
He assembles the clones and puts them to work. He also calls the foreman who got fired by Two
previously, and makes amends with him. Together, they all revamp the kitchen and backyard exactly
how the wife requested him to. Doug also shares a conversation with
Three. Doug reveals that he's insecure that his wife might like the gentle and sensitive Three,
better than she likes the original Doug. Three assures him that all the qualities he has,
actually come from Doug, and he has it in him to treat his wife and kids the best way he can.
After they're done remodeling, Doug comes to his in-laws' house where his wife and kids are
staying. He apologizes for not being there when she needed him. He begs on his knees
for his wife to forgive him. He also convinces her to come back with him to their house.
The wife is bowled over when she sees the beautiful renovation Doug has done. She now
truly believes he's a changed man, and he will make the necessary effort to step up.
Doug also reveals that he will no longer be going back to his old job; but he will start his own
construction business. This way, he has control over how many hours he works, and he can support
his wife when she's busy at work. With his life now in order,
it's time for the three clones to make their own path. They go on a road trip,
and tell Doug that they plan on settling in Florida. They ride off in a convertible car.
The car stops at a traffic light, and they're right beside the car containing the wife and kids.
The wife sees all three of the clones, and her eyes widen at how they all look similar to her
husband. But in the end, she shrugs it off, and tells her kids that when you love someone so much,
you start seeing their face everywhere. The movie ends with a letter from Three to Doug.
He discloses that the three clones have established a very popular pizza restaurant
in Florida. Two likes his work as a server, because he gets the chance to interact with
all the hot women and serve his hormones to them. Three is the restaurant's chef and his pepperoni
pizza has sold out. Finally, Four is living a good life as a newspaper-and-pizza delivery boy.
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