Full Frontal (2002)
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38% of critics liked it
(142 reviews) -
26% of users liked it
(5,994 ratings)
Described as a modern-day Hollywood version of Day for Night, director Steven Soderbergh's first digital video production was also shot employing a modified version of the frills-free Dogma 95 rules set forth by Lars Von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg, allowing a relatively small budget of about… More Described as a modern-day Hollywood version of Day for Night, director Steven Soderbergh's first digital video production was also shot employing a modified version of the frills-free Dogma 95 rules set forth by Lars Von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg, allowing a relatively small budget of about two million dollars. Julia Roberts and Blair Underwood star, respectively, as Francesca and Calvin, actors performing in a motion picture directed by David Fincher and co-starring Brad Pitt (who play themselves). Woven in and out of the film production story thread are several other subplots including one about a lovelorn woman, Linda (Mary McCormack); the self-absorbed Gus (David Duchovny); and a husband, Carl (David Hyde Pierce), whose wife (Catherine Keener) is falling for Calvin. Described initially as a follow-up to Soderbergh's independent breakout hit, sex, lies and videotape, Full Frontal isn't a sequel in the strictest sense of the word and is only thematically related to the earlier film in its exploration of voyeurism and sexuality. The film also stars Brad Rowe, Enrico Colantoni, and Nicky Katt. ~ Karl Williams, Rovi
- Directed By
- Steven Soderbergh
- Written By
- Coleman Hough
- Genres
- Drama, Comedy
- In Theaters
- Aug 2, 2002 Wide
- Studio
- Miramax Films
Critic Reviews
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Peter Rainer, New York Magazine
Soderbergh is so busy trying to create his movie-within-a-movie -- and, in at least one instance, his movie-within- a-movie-within -a-movie -- that he botches the enclosing movie.
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Robert Denerstein, Denver Rocky Mountain News
The best you can say about Full Frontal, an ensemble piece that flirts with ideas about illusion and reality, is that the movie qualifies as a failed experiment.
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Rex Reed, New York Observer
A boring, amateurish, incomprehensible and stupefyingly pretentious pile of swill.
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Andrew Sarris, New York Observer
Mr. Soderbergh's direction and visual style struck me as unusually and unimpressively fussy and pretentious.
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Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper
Full Frontal is like the 'Special Features' disc of the DVD without the original movie.
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Cast
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David Duchovny
as Bill, Gus
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Nicky Katt
as Hitler
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Catherine Keener
as Lee
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Mary McCormack
as Linda
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David Hyde Pierce
as Carl
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Julia Roberts
as Catherine/Francesca
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Blair Underwood
as Nicholas/Calvin
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Erika Alexander
as Lucy
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Jeff Garlin
as Harvey Probably
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Anthony Powers
as Male Massage Client
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Jerry Weintraub
as Jerry
- Brad Rowe
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Enrico Colantoni
as Arty/Ed
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Rainn Wilson
as Brian
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Brian Krow
as Bellboy
- Brad Pitt
- David Fincher
- Dina Spybey
- January Jones
- Rashida Jones
- Sandra Oh
- Terence Stamp
- David Duchovnym
