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  Duplex Movie
A duplexer is a device that combines two or more signals onto a common channel or medium to increase its transmission efficiency.
Duplex also means double-sided printing -- It is a common term in the printer market as well as in industries that handle paper.
Time division duplex has a strong advantage in the case where the asymmetry of the uplink and downlink data speed is variable.
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 Duplex - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A duplex lamp is a type of oil lamp invented by Joseph Hinks.
A "duplex reticle" in shooting terminology is a type of crosshairs reticle that is thicker on the edges, tapering to thin in the center of the scope's sight picture.
The Duplex Typewriter (1894) was a full keyboard upstrike typewriter designed by A. Dennis and produced by George Jewett.
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 Duplex (2003) Movie Review - The Hollywood News
Alas, his new picture Duplex never finds it's rhythm, and even though it does have a few very funny moments, it's more mean and ugly than anything else.
With Duplex, DeVito seems to be attempting a return to the films that made him a household name in the directing world.
Barrymore is very cute, but she seems all wrong for this movie, but then I can't think of a single actress that would have been right.
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 'Duplex' - MOVIE REVIEW - Los Angeles Times - calendarlive.com
"Duplex" is a mildly diverting dark comedy, directed with amiable mischievousness by Danny DeVito and starring an appealing Ben Stiller and Drew Barrymore.
"Duplex," which has a glossy sheen, allows Stiller to expand his range as a leading man, while it asks of Barrymore mainly to look pretty and be adorable.
Essell, who took leave of her career to raise a family and didn't resume until the death of her husband, is a formidable actress of remarkable vigor and dexterity along with terrific comic skills.
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 Modamag.com | Duplex - Movie Review
“Duplex” is often very funny, delivering big laughs when it feels the desire to.
“Duplex” is quieter, but often just as weird and funny as a film like this is capable of becoming, and what a PG-13 will allow.
Regardless of the way it finishes, “Duplex” is an often funny movie, maybe even going so far as to become a cautionary tale for young couples looking to buy their first homes.
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 Duplex   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Duplex is a movie that tries to be a dark comedy but fails miserably because it doesn't what to do with itself.
However, Mrs Connelly turns out to be the tenant from hell as she does everything from intruding on the couple's lives every single minute, calling the cops on them, turning up the volume of the TV in the middle of the night, and more.
Duplex is a movie that becomes increasingly implausible, only to do a turnaround and tell me that hey, it's actually plausible because of the plot twist, but it doesn't quite work.
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 Duplex (2003) Movie Review - RopeofSilicon.com
Duplex is a Miramax Films release directed by Danny DeVito and was released in theaters on September 26, 2003.
When you hear a movie is supposed to be funny you think to yourself, "I should laugh at this movie." In terms of Duplex that thought goes out the window and you learn that assuming things really does make an ASS out of you.
After all the horrible reviews for this year's Gigli we have Duplex and with it comes Alex (Stiller) and Nancy (Barrymore), a young couple looking for a place to start their lives together and start a family.
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 Ben Stiller: Duplex - Movie
This movie is about a couple who moves into this duplex where an old lady lives in the upper apartment she is renting.
This Movie is a little like "throw momma off the train" which is about an author writing a book trying to kill an old lady too but for someone.and the author ends up writing about the whole thing.
The movie's plot is original in which a young couple movie into the house of their dreams.
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 Duplex (2003) : Reviews
Actually, this movie is not like those 8 zeros budget.
Nevertheless, I would highly recommend this movie for parents and of course, other people as well.
Lastly, Duplex is not trash because it has its own place in the silverscreen.
www.countingdown.com /movies/456464/reviews?review_id=3385905   (116 words)

  
 CANOE -- JAM! Movies - Duplex Review - Two levels of boredom   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
The elderly lady upstairs (British actress Eileen Essel, the best thing in the movie) begins to bother her new landlords, what with her TV playing loudly all night, the endless errands she asks them to run, the intrusive friends who are her fellow members of a loud brass band.
The Duplex is actually a little joke with a lovely punchline, and too bad it takes 90 minutes to tell.
The Duplex seems to be two movies struggling for control: One is a dumb entry with exploding stoves and barf scenes that might amuse a 10-year-old; the other is a spoof of the New York scene, with sophisticated laughs about the cutthroat competitiveness of everyday life in Manhattan.
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 Louisville Scene | Movies | Movie Review | 'Duplex'   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
The series, which includes "The War of the Roses" (with Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner as a combatant married couple) and "Death to Smoochy" (with Robin Williams) is marked by the slow deterioration of seemingly "normal" folks, ending with them trying to whack their tormentors.
Such is the case with "Duplex," a lightweight, obvious semi-farce built around the rising comedic competence of Ben Stiller, who has cannily built himself up as a performer who can generate laughs just with one panicky look.
Stiller ("The Royal Tenenbaums," "Meet the Parents") is the only thing "Duplex" has going for it, but he often isn't enough.
www.courier-journal.com /scene/movies/reviews/2003/20030926duplex.html   (389 words)

  
 The Popkorn Junkie :: Duplex
Alas, "Duplex" is basically a one annoyance after the other, eventually leading the two main characters to contemplate actual murder, a step we feel necessary ourselves, by that time.
Eileen Essel is fabulous as the old lady, and I just cannot remember having seen her in anything else before, which is a shame.
"Duplex" is a flawed, but sometimes comic film that will get lost amidst the others films of last week and next week.
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 All-Reviews.com Movie/Video Review: Duplex
The spacious duplex they are offered is ideal for raising a family, and Realtor Kenneth (Harvey Fierstein) assures them that their upstairs tenant, the elderly Mrs.
The first half of "Duplex," in which Alex and Nancy are driven mad by their tenant, is better than its latter, where they go to any lengths necessary to kill her.
While the movie is wickedly funny and full of energy throughout, the very lengths that Alex and Nancy do go through straddle the lines of implausibility (even for a comedy).
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 Metromix. Movie review: 'Duplex'
But "Duplex" is no "Ladykillers," a wondrous 1955 British crime comedy in which a horde of crooks, led by Alec Guinness, try in vain to terminate the indestructible Katie Johnson.
Somewhat in the vein of "Throw Momma," director DeVito's debut theatrical feature, "Duplex" is a comedy about the seemingly unspeakable: two likable young people driven to trying to kill a "helpless" old lady.
The movie lacks DeVito's usual flawless attack and sense of fun, the sheer joie de vivre with which he saturates his best work.
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 Duplex: A Movie Review by Jack Moore   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
In Duplex we are presented with a new old lady to laugh at, only this time she's not a mere reoccurring joke.
Connelly (Elieen Essel) lives in the upper floor of a spacious 19th century duplex in Brooklyn, a beautiful home that has captured the attention of a pair of young newlyweds, Alex (Ben Stiller) and Nancy (Drew Barrymore).
Every time I managed to salvage a laugh from Duplex's awkward and forced narrative, I was slapped with scenes of parched humor and sick creepiness (and not the good David Lynch kind).
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 Duplex Movie Review - Duplex Movie Trailer - The Boston Globe
But "Duplex" is too cute and too forced to let sinister desperation get the best of it.
And their neighbor's habit of sleeping with the TV on at THX volumes means a slew of restless nights for Alex and Nancy.
Excusing the passage in which a hitman (James Remar) whom the couple hires tries to polish off their neighbor, "Duplex" is almost harmless enough to take the kids.
www.boston.com /movies/display?display=movie&id=2704   (592 words)

  
 TNMC Movie Reviews: Duplex
The movie manages to miss where that line is and jumps early, shattering any hope of sympathy for the main characters.
She eventually manages to put a major dent in both their careers through this and it's a very short hop from there to considering murder.
She wanders back and forth between clueless and nasty, leaving the audience thoroughly confused as to the true nature of the character.
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 Duplex movie review | MoovGoog Movie Blog
Duplex shows us the dark side of human nature, the evil within us and what we are capable of when driven to insanity.
Connelly should not be a problem as people at her age might die soon and they would have the whole duplex to themselves.
With that in mind, Nancy and Rose decide to purchase the duplex.
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 Duplex Movie Review
About the only possible thing wrong with it is that it's a duplex.
DUPLEX is blessed with a nice ending, which isn't easy to come up with given how many times similar stories have been told.
It is rated PG-13 for "sexual content, language and some violence" and would be acceptable for kids around 12 and up.
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 Movie Review for Duplex [DVD] - 2004-03-19
When the sweet old lady (Eileen Essel) stops being so sweet and instead turns into a neighbor’s worst nightmare, the owners have to find a way to get rid of her, and as she can’t be kicked out, this means resorting to drastic measures including possibly murdering the old bat.
Throw Momma was a funny movie, and Duplex is a much better movie than War of the Roses.
The movie does resort to unnecessary bathroom humor in a couple of places, but all in all the story works.
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 Duplex
Duplex is a movie that plays it safe at every turn, which is something a dark comedy never, ever should do.
Predictable situations mean that Duplex fails to scale any comic heights, though belly laughs will be had by those with an appetite for crass physical humor.
Duplex wants you to hurt when you laugh, but the pain and guilt are minor.
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 The Duplex Planet - Cinema
Massachusetts and the resident contributors to the Duplex Planet.
movies somewhere in New Jersey - and then he was cast as a sort of a, a
I mean, some of those monster movies are too scary to even look at.
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 "Duplex" Movie Review by Kevin Carr - 7M Pictures
However, it is a gorgeous Brooklyn duplex that catches their eye.
By the end of the film, the two are a darkly twisted duo plotting the death of a little old lady.
And it is most definitely not the feel-good movie of the year.
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 deseretnews.com - Movie review: Duplex | Deseret Morning News Web edition
Which might not be so bad if he had a full body of films to draw from, rather than just a handful.
That's not to say that "Duplex" doesn't have some funny stuff, but most of it comes in the first half.
"Duplex" is rated PG-13 for violence (slapstick, as well as some less-comic life-and-death struggles), crude sexual humor, references and innuendo, scattered use of strong profanity and a brief sex scene (done for laughs).
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 Duplex film movie trailer review at The Z Review
Duplex will be released on Region 1 DVD in the US on the 2nd March 2004.
Duplex was originally due for release in September 2002, but has been put back until just a week before Valentine's Day, wonder if that is because it's a Romantic Comedy?
This page has no intention to infringe on the rights of the film and intellectual copyright holders of Duplex and hold copyright over the movie, characters, merchandise and storyline.
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 Duplex - Moviefone   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
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 Crescent Blues Movie Views | Duplex: Bates Motel Revisited?
In the dark comedy Duplex, novelist Alex (Ben Stiller) and magazine editor Nancy (Drew Barrymore) are the perfect couple living the perfect life in their new dream home.
If they did the movie would be over in about 15 minutes.) Soon after taking the plunge from rent checks to mortgage payments, their world literally crashes to the ground.
Duplex may not be the stuff great movies are made of, but it may make you appreciate your own neighbors more.
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 Movie Review - Duplex - www.ericdsnider.com - The Official Website of Eric D. Snider
I don't enjoy movies whose principal comedic device is frustration.
Alex and Nancy are a young New York couple who buy a fantastic duplex in Brooklyn.
It's roomy and charming, and if the elderly tenant upstairs ever dies or moves out -- she cannot be evicted nor her miniscule rent raised, due to rent-control laws -- it can even be a source of profit.
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 Duplex - Review - Moviefone
The movie has a lot of comic violence (as in a cartoon, everyone survives without serious injury), including a gunshot wound.
The movie got me where I live, but I think that even non-Park Slope real-estate owners will have a blast at Duplex: It's one of the most unnerving slapstick extravaganzas I've ever seen.
This is a one-note deal, and it doesn't take long before you want to, well, just move out and leave these characters in their rent-controlled limbo.
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