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sex, lies, and videotape
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MPAA RATING: R
Starring James Spader, Andie MacDowell, Peter Gallagher, and Laura San Giacomo
Written in eight days on a trip to Los Angeles by first-time feature director Stephen Soderbergh, and shot in five weeks on a meager $1.2 million budget, the film tells the story of Graham (Spader), who visits old friend John (Gallager), and engages John's wife (McDowell), and her sister (San Giacomo) in his unique method of overcoming his unusual sexual dysfunction.
| GENRE(S): | Drama |
| WRITTEN BY: | Steven Soderbergh |
| DIRECTED BY: | Steven Soderbergh |
| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: September 8, 1998 Video: September 9, 1997 Theatrical: August 4, 1989 |
| RUNNING TIME: | 100 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: | USA |
The film was nominated for a 1990 Best Original Screenplay Academy Award (Sodergergh) and won the Palme d'Or and the Best Actor award (Spader) at 1989's Cannes Film Festival.
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The average user rating for this movie is 7.7 (out of 10) based on 9 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Robert R gave it an8:
Sex, Lies, and Videotape is an imposingly inherent annotation on infidelity. Its four separate protagonists share affinities in their exposure to sex, one being their reluctance to completely discuss sex as a sober topic. Though it appears that Graham is the most sophomoric of the characters, his ability to comprehend sex as a momentous and frustrating force in life is a profound revelation that permits the transcendence of his character, which deepens the dimensions of—and his relationship to—the Ann protagonist and the two supplementary characters. Through divulging conversations, tentative actions, and foreshadowing cinematography, Steven Soderbergh creates an easily resonant environment that necessitates the viewer’s confrontation with his phobias, analogous to that of Soderbergh’s fiction.
David A. gave it a10:
Very impressive. Even back then, Soderbergh knew how to make awesome movies.
Kevin D. gave it a3:
Boring. Thats pretty much all I have to say. I forced myself through it the first time and won't make myself endure that garbage again. Well acted, well directed, but just plain boring.
Jane A. gave it a 10:
Brilliant. Really wonderful.
Pat C. gave it an 8:
An engrossing & unique project that seems indie in its atmosphere and construction. Like the relationships it decribes, it goes nowhere and with reckless unresistable energy. It's like Woody Allen minus the obsession for closure. It was made back when finding an answer still mattered, but when it was also an accepted alternative to minimize the importance of an answer. The sexual mindset as an expression of will is therefore implicit.
Yoon C. gave it a 2:
Trite, smarmy, and indulgent. A story of people with nothing to do made by a filmmaker who'd do better to do nothing.
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