MULTIPLICITY

MULTIPLICITY. '''Harold Ramis, dir. co-script.''' USA: Columbia, 1996. Ramis, Chris Miller, et al., script. Michael Keaton, Andie MacDowell, stars.

Somewhat mundane (in the tech. sense) farce based on cloning the Keaton character three times. The clones are assigned different "task areas," resulting in the clones developing different personalities. MULTIPLICITY is relevant for the (comic) process of clone production: Keaton's character puts it, "'You Xerox people.'" With the patient upon a table, a green light, as in a photocopier, passes over his body. In Ramis's words, "The machines go to work. They're all kinds of hydraulics and pneumatics involved. There's a big stainless steel tank, and a clone merges. . . . A Xerox copy with all your memories intact right up to the moment of the cloning." Previewed by Chuck Wagner, Cinefantastique 27.11-12 (July 1996): 22-23, our source for our citation and annotation.