sex, lies and videotape

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Overview

Steven Soderbergh kickstarted the independent film movement of the 1990s with this landmark drama about the tangled relationships among four people and a video camera. John Peter Gallagher is an unscrupulous, self-centered yuppie lawyer with a beautiful wife named Ann Andie MacDowell. Ann feels secure and well provided-for in their relationship, but she has almost no interest in sex; she tells her therapist that she's more concerned about waste disposal. John, however, is still quite interested in sex and is ...
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Overview

Steven Soderbergh kickstarted the independent film movement of the 1990s with this landmark drama about the tangled relationships among four people and a video camera. John Peter Gallagher is an unscrupulous, self-centered yuppie lawyer with a beautiful wife named Ann Andie MacDowell. Ann feels secure and well provided-for in their relationship, but she has almost no interest in sex; she tells her therapist that she's more concerned about waste disposal. John, however, is still quite interested in sex and is having an affair with Ann's sister Cynthia Laura San Giacomo, whose personality is fire to Ann's ice; sex is the one area in which she's been able to best her more successful sister, and she relishes her ability to seduce Ann's husband. Into this dysfunctional picture comes Graham James Spader, a college friend of John's whom he hasn't seen in nine years. Graham has decided that talking about sex is more interesting than actually having sex, so he meets women and asks them discuss their desires and fantasies as he tapes them with a camcorder. A sensation at the Sundance Film Festival, the film made that festival a synonym for a new brand of low-budget indie dramas about contemporary life and relationships. Together with Quentin Tarantino's very different Pulp Fiction 1994, sex, lies, and videotape was one of the most influential movies for independent filmmaking of the 1990s.
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Special Features

Theatrical trailer; Scene selections; Commentary by Steven Soderbergh
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Editorial Reviews

All Movie Guide - Lucia Bozzola
The feature debut by 26-year-old writer/director/editor Steven Soderbergh galvanized the independent film movement of the late '80s and '90s with its breakout success leading out of the Sundance Film Festival. Soderbergh's late twentysomethings are so alienated and sexually dysfunctional that voyeuristic, videotaping onanist Graham's professions of relative healthiness ring ironically true. In these warped lives, the mediating presence of the video camera becomes a means to self-awareness, yet human connection can happen only via a machine. Winner of the Audience Prize at Sundance, sex, lies and videotape commanded international attention by winning the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival (as well as the Best Actor prize for James Spader's subtle performance as Graham), setting the stage for the award-winning prominence of American independent cinema at the Cannes festival in subsequent years. Picked up and aggressively marketed by Miramax, sex, lies and videotape grossed 26 million dollars, raising the bar for an "indie" hit, establishing Miramax as the most prominent purveyor and savvy marketer of independent film, and refocusing attention on non-Hollywood product as a vital creative and entertainment alternative to blockbusters.
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Product Details

  • Release Date: 10/7/1998
  • UPC: 043396904897
  • Original Release: 1989

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  • Source: Sony Pictures
  • Region Code: 1
  • Presentation: Wide Screen
  • Language: English, Español, Français
  • Format: DVD
  • Sales rank: 26,643

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits
James Spader Graham Dalton
Andie MacDowell Ann Millaney
Peter Gallagher John Millaney
Laura San Giacomo Cynthia Bishop
Ron Vawter Therapist
Steven Brill Barfly
David Foil John's Colleague
Alexandra Root Girl on Tape
Earl Taylor Landlord
Technical Credits
Steven Soderbergh Director, Editor, Screenwriter
Deborah Aquila Casting
John Hardy Co-producer
Paul Ledford Sound Mixer
Walt Lloyd Cinematographer
Cliff Martinez Score Composer
Morgan Mason Executive Producer
Robert Newmyer Co-producer
James Ryder Costumes/Costume Designer
Joanne Schmidt Art Director
Victoria Spader Set Decoration/Design
Nancy Tenenbaum Executive Producer, Producer
Nick Wechsler Executive Producer
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