Duets (film)
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| Directed by | Bruce Paltrow |
| Produced by | John Byrum Kevin Jones Bruce Paltrow |
| Screenplay by | John Byrum |
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Gwyneth Paltrow Huey Lewis Paul Giamatti Maria Bello Andre Braugher Scott Speedman |
| Music by | David Newman |
| Cinematography | Paul Sarossy |
| Edited by | Gerald B. Greenberg |
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| Distributed by | Buena Vista Pictures |
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112 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $16,000,000 |
| Box office | $4,739,023 |
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| Released | September 12, 2000 |
| Genre | Various |
| Label | Hollywood Records |
Duets is a 2000 American road trip film co-produced and directed by Bruce Paltrow and written by John Byrum. The motion picture features an ensemble cast co-starring Gwyneth Paltrow, Paul Giamatti, Maria Bello, Scott Speedman, Andre Braugher, Huey Lewis and Angie Dickinson, among others. The movie "revolves around the little known world of karaoke competitions and the wayward characters who inhabit it."
The story revolves around unrelated pairs of people who spend time in karaoke bars across the United States in the week leading up to a big contest in Omaha.
All three pairs end up at the Omaha contest, each having won the right to compete there for $5,000 by virtue of winning in one of the smaller towns. Finally accepting his daughter, Ricky invites her to perform a duet with him of her mother's favourite song, Cruisin'. Billy discovers that Suzi's confidence is fake when he finds her sitting on the floor in the ladies' room, vomiting in the toilet from stage fright, but he convinces her to compete. After Reggie sees the police arrive at the contest, investigating the service station shooting, he performs an a cappella version of Free Bird before pulling a gun on stage, prompting police to shoot him; giving Todd the chance to put the full blame for the service station shooting on him, so Todd can return to his old life.
After the contest, Billy and Suzi continue on their way to California. Billy invites Liv (with whom he had been flirting/bantering with at the contest) and Ricky to join them, and they resolve to take a slight detour to another karaoke contest in Nevada. Todd and Candy contemplate reconciliation, but the fate of their relationship is left open.
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