Multiplicity

Doug Kinney is a construction foreman stretched too thin. His job consumes his days while his wife, Laura, and their children get whatever time is left over, and there is nothing left at all for himself. A geneticist named Dr. Owen Leeds offers an unconventional fix: duplicate Doug so that a copy can handle the work while the original enjoys his family and his own life. Doug agrees, and the arrangement works well enough that he soon decides one double is not sufficient. Successive copies appear, and the growing group proves harder to manage than the life it was meant to simplify.

Michael Keaton plays Doug and his duplicates, with Andie MacDowell as Laura, Harris Yulin as Leeds and Eugene Levy as Vic. Harold Ramis directed and produced, working from a screenplay by Lowell Ganz, Babaloo Mandel and Chris Miller. It was Ramis's fifth feature as director, arriving between Groundhog Day and Analyze This. The production carried a budget of 45 million dollars and returned about 21 million worldwide, a shortfall that made it a commercial disappointment.

Audience response has been moderate: on IMDb it holds 6.1/10 from over thirty-four thousand votes, and on TMDB 5.8/10 from a much smaller sample of 623. A critics' rating of 5.5/10 from 47 reviews places professional opinion close to the audience scores, without either group regarding the film as a standout of Ramis's filmography.