It was based on Chris Miller's short story of the same name, published in National Lampoon magazine.

Working on a new wing of a scientific facility, Doug meets Dr. Leeds, a scientist who developed a method for cloning humans.

Laura becomes increasingly upset with her husband's erratic behavior and how he has no memories of discussions she unwittingly had with another clone.

The clones write to Doug that they have set up a successful pizzeria called "Three Guys from Nowhere" in Miami, Florida, and masquerade as triplets.

Rico is the head chef and is "cooking up a storm and having a ball", and Lenny is both the delivery boy and a paperboy.

But because of his limited intellect, he confuses the two jobs, and the movie ends with him delivering a pizza by throwing it, newspaper-style.

[1][2] The Olympic Games was blamed for the poor opening weekend, and Independence Day held on to the number one position.

John Krier, head of Exhibitor Relations, disagreed that the Olympics were to blame, instead saying competition from other films were the cause since total grosses were the same as the previous year.

The site's critical consensus reads: "This high-concept experiment only proves that a comedy actually can have too much Michael Keaton.

"[7] Audiences surveyed by CinemaScore gave the film a grade B on scale of A to F.[8] Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun Times gave the film 2.5 out of 4, and wrote: "Groundhog Day had a certain sweetness and even a sly philosophical depth, but Multiplicity is more of a ground-level comedy, in which we can usually anticipate the problems for Doug and his clones.

The DVD is compatible with region code 4, and includes special features such as the theatrical trailer and crew biographies.