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1. Kurt Halfyard says:

   October 1, 2012 at 1:09 pm

   Hard to pin down comedies from their trailers. The cast is excellent (Alan Rickman!), and the Coen’s do like their own brand of pratfall-humour, albeit they translate it different onscreen than is shown here.

   I’d watch this and hope for some Duplicity / A Fish Called Wanda kind of awesomeness, albeit that’s a fair bit of expectations a director that went from SOAPDISH (excellent!) to THE LAST STATION (un-interested…) in 20 years.

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2. John Allison says:

   October 1, 2012 at 2:09 pm

   Is Duplicity worth checking out? I avoided it as it just looked like another Julia Roberts annoying romantic comedy.

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   • Andrew James says:

     October 1, 2012 at 2:41 pm

     Duplicity is great! It’s not a rom-com at all. It’s more of a fun thriller. Has the best opening credits sequence of that year as well.

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     • Kurt Halfyard says:

       October 2, 2012 at 8:15 am

       I second what Andrew said, the whole film is vastly underrated, and very, very good in almost a 1960s kind of way. It’s aiming for CHARADE territory and it almost gets there.

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       • Jericho Slim says:

         October 2, 2012 at 1:43 pm

         Agreed. Duplicity is definitely worth your time.

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       • Jandy Hardesty says:

         October 2, 2012 at 1:45 pm

         That’s some pretty high praise – I think Charade is in my Top 100 of all time. Love that movie.

         I should check out Duplicity, I just have an anti-Julia Roberts complex at the moment.

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3. Sean Patrick Kelly says:

   October 1, 2012 at 4:43 pm

   It’s interesting that the trailer is hiding the fact that the film is directed by Michael Hoffman (One Fine Day, Midsummer’s Night Dream, The Last Station) and NOT the Coens.

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4. John Allison says:

   October 1, 2012 at 8:44 pm

   My guess isn’t that it is hiding it…. more just that they know no one would care that he is the Director.

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   • Sean Patrick Kelly says:

     October 2, 2012 at 7:50 am

     My point is that there are definitely going to be people, who are going to go see this film believing that it was directed by the Coens (instead of just written by).

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5. David Brook says:

   October 2, 2012 at 7:18 am

   Cameron Diaz looks like she could be a weak link in this, but we’ll see. Might be fun.

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