There are also some interesting casting choices he makes such as, a cameo for Angie Dickinson as Gwyneth's grandmother and the noted singer Huey Newton is cast in a starring role.
Duets is a cross-country road film.
He wants to get away from this area after he catches his wife sleeping with his taxi partner. When Suzi wins her karaoke competition, they go to Omaha for the finals. The salesman story is the featured one, evoking a sense of the American culture being deadly to one's psyche. This story is the most bizarre and implausible one but it has the strength of bringing out a number of small truths that add up, allowing the film to maintain a quirky sense of justification for its messiness. Its impact is helped greatly by the engagingly nuanced performances of Giamatti and Braugher.