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Synopsis: Duets is a road-trip comedy which revolves around the little known world of karaoke and the whimsical characters who inhabit it. There's the struggling singer who dreams of making it to the big time, a frustrated salesman who ends up on an unexpected road trip, the dysfunctional family performers which includes a con-artist and his long lost daughter, and an escaped convict with the voice of an angel. All roads lead to Omaha, site of a national karaoke competition where this motley group of singers and stars come together for a blow-out sing-off.
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Director(s): Bruce Paltrow
Production: Hollywood Pictures
  1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
6.0
Metacritic:
40
Rotten Tomatoes:
20%
R
Year:
2000
112 min
$4,262,782
453 Views


can show you tape of a police chase...

that goes through

two countries.

Our Cindy LaVargas has it.

- [TVContinues, Indistinct]

- Hey!

- Hey.

- Billy.

What are you...

What are you doing here?

I took off early. There's a lecture

on Zen Buddhism tonight at the "Y."

Man, the saddest thing

happened to me today.

I got a call to go

to the police station...

Are you watching this? 'Cause I can

hardly hear with this thing.

- Yeah, um...

- [Man Vocalizing, Water Running]

Billy, um, um...

[Man Continues Singing]

Ooh.

God, I'm so... Billy.

I'm so sorry.

I don't...

I don't even know

how it happened.

I just, um... Billy?

I don't... Oh!

- Ralph?

- Christ. Billy...

- Oh, God.

- Billy, please. Don't get crazy.

- My own partner!

- Billy, no, please! Don't go!

[Video Game Beeping]

Hello.

[Chuckles]

Hey, Julie.

Sweetheart?

- Hey, Carson. I'm home, son.

- [Beeping Continues]

- Missed ya.

- [Gunshots]

Thought I was in Florida,

and I was in Texas.

Uh, can you

imagine that?

Now I come home and my own kids

can't even say hello to me.

Jeez, wouldn't it be nice if once when

I come home, someone says hello to me?

Sure.

But just because you come home,

you can't expect everyone...

to just drop what they're doing

and give you their undivided attention.

Well...

[Computer Chiming]

You know what I did for

the last 18 months, Candy?

Hmm?

I racked up over 200,000

frequent flier miles,

jamming a bogus

Pirates of the Caribbean village...

down some zoning board's throat

in Shell Island, South Carolina.

Took one of the last remaining pristine

beaches on the eastern seaboard,

and I turned it into Toonville...

with fast food.

[Chuckles]

- Not to mention the turtles.

- Turtles?

- [Computer Chimes]

- Yeah.

Goddamn Shell Island

sea turtles.

Oldest living amphibians

in North America.

But now extinct. Pffft!

Thanks to me.

Why? Because we needed their

breeding grounds for a water slide.

[Computer Chimes]

But didn't you want

their breeding ground?

Yes.

- No.

- Honey, could you...

I'm... I'm on-line here.

Okay?

[Keyboard Clicking,

Computer Chiming]

Where you going?

Sorry, Candy, but I'm going out

for a pack of cigarettes.

But you don't smoke!

[Organ Playing]

What are you doing?

Just trying to fx her hair.

It's sort of stiff.

They've got her

dipped in hair spray.

Hear that?

Poor Donna.

You knew her well?

Real well. Did you?

Not really.

I guess not.

I would've heard about you.

- You live here in Vegas?

- Mm-hmm.

Let me guess.

Keno girl?

Hey, buddy,

I worked right alongside Donna

here at the front line of the Dunes.

I'm about as close as you get

to an aristocrat in this town.

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John Byrum

John Byrum (born March 14, 1947) is an American film director and writer known for The Razor's Edge, Heart Beat, Duets and Inserts. more…

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