sex, lies, and videotape

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sex, lies, and videotape
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R,1hr 39min
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Released:
January 1, 1989
Distributor:
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Synopsis: 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 ... Full Synopsis
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Electrifying… As writer, director and editor, [Soderbergh’s] control is mesmerizing. It's also more than a little creepy; as though Soderbergh were drawing us, a step at a time, into a warm pool where intimate secrets flowed back and forth as simply as currents of water. [4 Aug 1989, Calendar, p.6-1] Full Review
Metascore
®
86
Universal Acclaim
out of 100
Featured Cast
Graham Dalton
Ann Millaney
John Millaney
Cynthia Bishop
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