Duplicity (2009)

A chance meeting in Dubai between a CIA agent (Julia Roberts) and an M16 agent (Clive Owen) doesn't turn out well when she drugs him and robs him of documents after they have sex. When they meet again years later, the attraction between them still exists and leads to a complex plot that will make them rich ..... or so they think. Written and directed by Tony Gilroy (MICHAEL CLAYTON), this is a marvelously stylish spy romantic comedy. In a complicated entertainment like this (it's not told in a linear fashion), it helps to have appealing and attractive stars in the leads and Roberts and Owen have a strong chemistry that was previously displayed in Mike Nichols' CLOSER (2004). It's a cinematic puzzle and that turns off a lot of people who just want their stories told straight but I like puzzles so I find movies like this appealing (though not always, MEMENTO anyone?). With Paul Giamatti, Tom Wilkinson, Denis O'Hare, Kathleen Chalfant, Carrie Preston and Thomas McCarthy.