Full Frontal

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Full Frontal

R

2002

1h 41m

Comedy

Drama

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Full Frontal is a contemporary comedy and the unofficial sequel to Sex, Lies, and Videotape. Linda would love to be loved. Carl loves his wife, Lee. Lee is looking to be loved by Calvin. Calvin plays Nicholas who discovers he's in love with Catherine. Catherine, who is really Francesca, finds true love. And Gus loves himself. Like Day For Night, Steven Soderbergh's Full Frontal is a movie about movies for people who love movies.

Critics Consensus

An confusing movie made worse by the poor camera work.

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David Ansen

Newsweek

03/08/2018

Soderbergh's playfully experimental spirit should be saluted, even if the end product looks like it was more fun to make than it is to watch.

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Nell Minow

Common Sense Media

12/24/2010

3/5

Some vivid moments, but overall, just so-so.

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Peter Rainer

New York Magazine/Vulture

08/11/2002

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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Jas Keimig

The Stranger (Seattle, WA)

12/09/2021

Clearly, a low-budget affair and, plotwise, a bit fractal. But I strangely like how navel-gazey Full Frontal ended up being...

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David Walsh

World Socialist Web Site

02/16/2021

Soderbergh imagines that he can play around with artistic and moral issues, but he is only fooling himself.

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Tim Brayton

Antagony & Ecstasy

02/11/2010

10/10

The most dense, fascinating collage of notions and meta-narrative references and formal tinkering in Soderbergh's whole career.

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Bad K

@RT17002265 01/18/2025

Total garbage. I fell asleep in. Laughable how a "movie" can be made with no script, poor camerawork like it was made from a 2001 Nokia flip phone. "Director" has his friends in it for cameos to get some fast SAG cash and idiots will see it bc "celebrities" are in it. Guarantee you 95% of this was imrpov and they made it up as they went. This wasn't worth me seeing what I saw before falling asleep from a library copy. More hollywood insulting the audience for a buck.

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Georgan G

@RT98616417 02/19/2024

I really liked the experimental effects and hilarious comedy. This movie about a play within a movie within a movie was so fun. Even the title is a play on words as the ultimate question for an actor, i.e., are you willing to do a full frontal?

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01/06/2019

As a comedy without jokes, it's incredibly dull

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04/03/2017

I get the negative reaction, but I had a pretty good time with this. I think I just have a high tolerance for Soderbergh's shenanigans; I liked Bubble and The Girlfriend Experience after all. I thought the multiply-nested structure of films-with-films was compelling, and it's also pretty funny.

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07/31/2016

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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07/25/2014

they keep losing my review-grrrr

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Synopsis

Full Frontal is a contemporary comedy and the unofficial sequel to Sex, Lies, and Videotape. Linda would love to be loved. Carl loves his wife, Lee. Lee is looking to be loved by Calvin. Calvin plays Nicholas who discovers he's in love with Catherine. Catherine, who is really Francesca, finds true love. And Gus loves himself. Like Day For Night, Steven Soderbergh's Full Frontal is a movie about movies for people who love movies.

Director: Steven Soderbergh
Producer: Scott Kramer, Gregory Jacobs
Screenwriter: Coleman Hough
Distributor: Miramax Films
Production Co: Miramax Films, Section Eight Ltd., Propaganda Films
Rating: R (Some Sexual Content|Language)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Aug 2, 2002, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Nov 29, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA): $2.5M
Runtime: 1h 41m
Sound Mix: Dolby SR, DTS, Dolby Stereo, Surround, SDDS, Dolby A, Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio: Flat (1.85:1)