TxMike I was able to watch this on HULU streaming movies.I had seen this years ago and remember that I enjoyed it, so was anxious to see it again. Today the benign tropical storm Cindy passed through so it was a good day to stay inside. While I remembered the broad gist of the story and some funny complications most of it was pretty fresh to me.Michael Keaton is Doug Kinney working for a big building contractor in Los Angeles. He has a wife and two kids, loves his family, but more and more finds that he doesn't have enough time for everything he wants and needs to do. A scientist, a geneticist, observes Doug's frustration at a job side, pulls him aside, and introduces him to his #2. An exact clone, a procedure the geneticist has pretty much perfected over the years.Out of options Doug agrees to have an exact clone made of himself, complete with all memories. This clone has an additional advantage, he is just a bit more assertive and confident than Doug and immediately starts to be more effective on the job.Soon Doug takes on many other activities while his #2 is working the main job but Doug still runs short of time. So he has another clone made. Number 3 is a bit different also, he is more sensitive, more domestic, with some effeminate characteristics. All playing on the idea that, much like making Xerox copies, each one is a bit different from the original.Then the big surprise comes when one of the clones makes a clone of himself and a big deviation occurs, #4 is very goofy and strange in a number of ways, #2 and #3 begin to affectionately call him "Rainman." Andie MacDowell is really good as the wife, Laura. But the main reason to see this is the acting of Keaton. He has to play 4 distinctly different roles and he does it masterfully. SPOILERS: All this causes friction between Doug and Laura, disappointed she moves away for a while, not knowing she had been dealing with 4 different Dougs. In her absence the 4 Dougs do all the home renovations he had promised her, and he wins her back. In the end Doug #1 gives the other three a car and they take off East, ending up in Miami, Laura never finds out about them.

Predrag Let me start with the obvious: this film is of it's time. It's slight, whimsical, wish-fulfillment fun. There is no great need to place too much faith in the science, which in fact is part of the fun also. Who would've thought that cloning might be like photocopying, crossed with vacu-forming? Basically Michael plays an over worked construction executive who is trying to balance work and his family. He clones himself when me meets some weird scientist who explains it all. Then everything pretty much gets obvious from there. Michael Keaton does very good work presenting very different personas, well distinguished from each other, while retaining their sources in the original character's makeup. Andy McDowell's just along for the ride, but fills her role well. It's really an adult comedy, Keaton is very good at the sharp dialogue and asides, a child might be mystified by much of what passed, while laughing uproariously at the visual humour.This is thin material, the humor growing mostly from mistaken identities. But Keaton and MacDowell have marriage problems to work through, which they do with only minor histrionics. As a "serious" look at marriage problems, it's almost believable. And one of the jokes has a punchline that's nearly as good as the infamous one in "The Thin Man". This is a comedy and it will succeed at making you laugh. The story and content is a bit deeper than the average comedy so it has dramatic tones here and there, but never without Keaton's trademark goofiness. To change anything in this movie would leave it less funny, too dramatic, or both. It is perfect the way it is - clean, simple, funny and endearing.Overall rating: 8 out of 10.

adonis98-743-186503 A man who never has enough time for the things he wants to do is offered the opportunity to have himself duplicated. Easily one of my favorite Michael Keaton movies or at least on the list with Batman, Batman Returns, Jack Frost, Spotlight and Birdman. The movie was directed by Harold Ramis and he did such an amazing job with the film cause it's super funny and underrated and shows why Michael Keaton is such an excellent actor i mean each self of his is unique the 2nd one is the bad boy, the 3rd one is some kind of the food expert and some people actually said is gay but i don't think so i think he was just the one that was scared of everything and 4th easily the funniest since he is the dumbest of the 4. If you loved any of those 5 movies i mentioned you will not be disappointed the man is just a genius.

zetes Ramis' follow-up to Stuart Saves His Family was much more popular, but, I must say, it's a total dud. Michael Keaton plays a busy man who doesn't have enough time between his demanding construction job and his family (Andie MacDowell plays his wife). While on a job, he meets up with a scientist who offers to clone him. He now has a double, but soon that's not enough, so he gets a third. Then the two clones conspire and make a fourth. The three clones differ from the original Keaton quite a bit. The first time, it makes some sense. 2 is a bit more cynical, knowing that he's the clone who has to work. 3, for some reason, is gay. 4, since he's a clone of a clone, is a daffy moron. So Keaton is basically giving four performances here, so he has a lot of opportunity to show his acting chops. Unfortunately, by 1996, Keaton had pretty much hit rock-bottom, and he does little but mug throughout the movie. It doesn't help that the script flat-out sucks. No other actor has anything else to do, so it's all up to Keaton and he flops.