Duplicity 🎥 2009 Movie Info

Plot Summary

Ray Koval, an MI6 agent, meets Claire Stenwick, a CIA officer, at a party in Dubai. Unaware of her identity, he attempts to seduce her, but she drugs him and steals his classified documents. Three years later, Ray confronts Claire in Rome, giving in to their mutual attraction and spending several days together at a posh hotel. Though wary of one another, they consider joining forces to enrich themselves through corporate espionage. Exploring possibilities over several months, they leave their careers as government spies to carry out their plan in the private sector.

Ray suggests exploiting the frozen pizza market, but Claire accepts a counterintelligence job in New York City with consumer goods giant Equikrom, who install her as a double agent with their chief competitor, Burkett & Randle. After being embedded for over a year, Claire arranges for Ray to join the Equikrom team as her handler. Unbeknownst to them, Burkett & Randle have infiltrated the Equikrom team and are spying on Claire and Ray, overhearing them rehearse their plan. Burkett & Randle’s CEO, Howard Tully, decides to manipulate the pair in his rivalry with Equikrom’s CEO, Dick Garsik. As rehearsed, Claire and Ray pretend to meet acrimoniously for the first time since Dubai — reprising much of their Rome confrontation — to avoid suspicion about their clandestine partnership.

Tully’s operatives plant misinformation for Garsik’s team to find, including a speech Tully makes to his own team about an unknown but groundbreaking new product. Garsik’s team go to extreme lengths to uncover the mystery product, even hacking Burkett & Randle’s photocopiers, and Claire is upset when Ray seduces an employee of the company’s travel office to gather information. Garsik’s team are led to believe Tully has acquired a lucrative scientific breakthrough, funding a life of luxury for the product’s inventor at a Bahamas resort. Claire is forced to help Tully’s team thwart Ray.

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