Duplicity is a 2009 American romantic comedy spy film written and directed by Tony Gilroy, and starring Clive Owen and Julia Roberts. The plot follows two corporate spies with a romantic history who collaborate to carry out a complicated con. The film was released on March 20, 2009. The film opens five years before the present day, showing the Fourth of July celebration at the American consulate in Dubai, where Ray Koval , an MI6 agent, appears to seduce Claire Stenwick , who, unbeknownst to him, is a CIA agent. Claire drugs Ray and steals classified documents from him. The scene cuts to a... silent, slow motion brawl on the tarmac between Howard Tully , the CEO of Burkett & Randle, and Dick Garsik , the CEO of Equikrom, illustrating the longstanding rivalry between the two executives. In the present day, Ray is now a corporate spy in New York City who recently went to work for Equikrom. At a meet, he spots Claire and thinks the mission is blown. Ray follows her and confronts her about the incident in Dubai.
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| Release date: | March 10, 2009 |
| Directed by: | Tony Gilroy |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 125 Minutes |
| Producer: | Laura Bickford, Jennifer Fox, Kerry Orent |
| Editor: | John Gilroy |
| Music by: | James Newton Howard |
| Cinematography: | Robert Elswit |
| Screenplay by: | Tony Gilroy |
| Estimated budget: | $60,000,000 |
| Genre: | Thriller |