- published: 14 Jan 2014
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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."
Ricky Dean (Huey Lewis) is a hustler on the karaoke circuit who travels from town to town. At the beginning of the film, he is in Tulsa on his way to a big competition in Omaha with a $5,000 first prize.
He is detoured by a phone call and travels to Las Vegas for the funeral of an old friend. While there, he meets up with long-lost daughter Liv (Gwyneth Paltrow), who decides she wants to join him on the road.
Meanwhile, stressed-out salesman Todd Woods (Paul Giamatti) realizes he's so burned out from being on the road that he doesn't even know what city he's in.
When he gets home, his wife Candy (Kiersten Warren) and two kids are too self-absorbed to even say hello. Todd goes out for a pack of cigarettes, gets sidetracked and discovers karaoke. In the process he makes a new friend, hitchhiker Reggie Kane (Andre Braugher), a convict on the lam. Woods tells Reggie what he feels is wrong:
Frank:
I've got a crush on you, sweetie pie
All the day and night-time hear me sigh
I never had the least notion
That I could fall with so much emotion
Barbra:
I wonder...Could you coo, now, could you care
For a cozy cottage we could share
The world will pardon my mush
'Cause I have got a crush, my baby, on you
Barbra: I've got a crush on you,
Frank: I've got a crush on you,
Barbra: Sweetie pie
Frank: Sweetie pie
Barbra: All the day and night-time
Frank: All the day and night-time
Barbra: Hear me sigh
Frank: Hear me sigh
Both: I never had the least notion
Frank: That I could fall with...
Barbra: I'd fall with...
Frank: So much...
Barbra: So much emotion
Frank: So much emotion
Could you coo?
Barbra: I could coo!
Frank: Could you possibly care?
Barbra: I could care!
Frank: For a lovely cottage...
Barbra: Ooo that cottage
Both: That we could share!
The world will pardon my mush
Frank: Yes, I have got a crush, my Barbra, on you!
Barbra: You will make me blush, Francis!
Frank: Yes!
Both: I have got a crush, my baby, on you...