Duplicity is a 2009 American romantic crime comedy film written and directed by Tony Gilroy, and starring Julia Roberts and Clive Owen.

After exploring possibilities over several months, including companies vying for the market in double-crust pizza, they settle on cosmetics and personal hygiene.

After more than a year, Ray takes a position in intelligence at Equikrom — a Burkett & Randle rival —where he will act as the handler, including Claire as a double agent.

Ray, where his new employer will be spying on him to assess his loyalty, practices with Claire how they will pretend to be meeting in New York for the first time since Dubai, reprising much of the dialogue of their actual first re-encounter in Rome.

Tully makes a speech to his intelligence team, including Claire, that paints his company as the innovator defending itself from duplicity and theft.

Thanks to information from Ray, Claire appears a hero to her employers, catching Equikrom's spying activities after the fact or thwarting them in some measure in the Bahamas.

She informs Garsik at Equikrom, who leaves for a shareholders meeting in Las Vegas, fully expecting to obtain the chemical formula.

Using Claire as their principal source inside their rival's offices, excitement builds as the Equikrom team succeeds in acquiring a copy of the formula.

At the same time, Claire and Ray meet at the Zürich Airport, each with a copy of the formula that they plan to sell to a Swiss company for $35 million.

The website's critics consensus reads: "Duplicity is well-crafted, smart, and often funny, but it's mostly more cerebral than visceral and features far too many plot twists.

[9] Scott Foundas, in his review for the Village Voice, wrote, "Comedy seems to have liberated Gilroy, who directs Duplicity with the high gloss and fleet-footed hustle of a golden-age Hollywood craftsman.

[10] Entertainment Weekly gave the film a "B" rating; Lisa Schwarzbaum wrote, "Gilroy counts on a Thin Man-style undercurrent of sexual sparring to sustain our interest in two scheming corporate operatives despite the fact that nothing much else is going on".