sex, lies, and videotape (1989) [R]

Featuring:
James Spader, Andie MacDowell, Peter Gallagher

Written by:
Steven Soderbergh

Directed by:
Steven Soderbergh


Release Date:
August 4, 1989

Original Title:
sex, lies, and videotape

Alternate Titles:
Sekkusu to uso to bideotêpu
Seks yalanlari
Seks, klamstwa i kasety video
Seks, laži i video trake
Sex, Shkarim V'Videotape
Sex, løgn og videobånd
Sex, psemata kai videotainies
Sexe, mensonge et vidéos
Sexo, Mentiras e Vídeo
Sexo, mentiras y cintas de vídeo
Sexo, mentiras y video
seks, yalanlar və kaset
섹스 거짓말 그리고 비디오 테이프
섹스 거짓말 그리고 비디오테이프
섹스, 거짓말, 그리고 비디오 테이프
섹스, 거짓말, 그리고 비디오테이프

Genres:
Drama

Production Companies:
Outlaw Productions

Production Countries:
United States of America

Ratings / Certifications:
AU: M  BE: 12  DE: 16  FI: K-12  FR: U|TP  GB: 15  IE: 18  JP: R15+  KR: 19  NL: 12  PL: 16  PT: M/16  RU: 18+  US: R 

Runtime: 101

the husband. the wife. her sister. his friend.

Ann, a frustrated wife, enters into counseling due to a troubled marriage. Unbeknownst to her, her husband John has begun an affair with her sister. When John’s best friend Graham arrives, his penchant for interviewing women about their sex lives forever changes John and Ann’s rocky marriage.

John and Ann Mullany, a junior partner at a law firm and a housewife respectively, are a young, upwardly mobile couple, who most would deem to have a perfect life. Ann's outward perfection belies the fact that she is in therapy, dealing with the stress over worrying about global issues with which she has little to no control. She does not see certain things with which she does have control being problems in her life, namely her sexual repression or her disinterest in sex as an activity, that is until it manifested itself in this stress which in turn is having, what she believes, a negative impact on her marriage. What she is unaware of is that, long before her stress began, John embarked on an affair with her sister, bartender Cynthia Bishop, who she doesn't admire as being too "loud". John reconnects with a close friend from college named Graham Dalton, who, to John, appears to have lost his way in life in the years that they have not been in touch. Graham, via the method in which he deals with his emotional and sexual problems - which is also believes is being totally forthright to all concerned - has a profound effect on Cynthia, John and Ann, who in turn, especially Ann, have a profound effect on him.

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Rankings and Honors

sex, lies, and videotape (1989) on IMDb
Internet Movie Database 7.2/10
Rotten Tomatoes 96%
Metacritic 86/100
Awards Won: Nominated for 1 Oscar. 15 wins & 24 nominations total

Art Direction:
Joanne Schmidt

Best Boy Grip:
David Jensen

Boom Operator:
Stephen Tyler

Casting:
Deborah Aquila

Director:
Steven Soderbergh

Director of Photography:
Walt Lloyd

Editor:
Steven Soderbergh

Electrician:
Buddy Carr

Executive Producer:
Nancy Tenenbaum
Morgan Mason

First Assistant Camera:
Michael Charbonnet

First Assistant Director:
Mike Dempsey

Foley Artist:
Vanessa Theme Ament

Foley Editor:
David E. Stone

Foley Recordist:
Scott Chandler

Gaffer:
Phill Beard

Grip:
Gilly Charbonnet
Jonathan Coney

Hairstylist:
Sabrina Lopez
Amanda Schuler

Key Grip:
J.D. Streett

Makeup Artist:
James Ryder

Makeup Trainee:
Kim Pease

Original Music Composer:
Cliff Martinez

Producer:
Nick Wechsler
John Hardy
Robert Newmyer

Production Coordinator:
Davis Guggenheim

Second Assistant Camera:
Tony Brignac

Second Assistant Director:
Alexandra Root

Set Decoration:
Victoria Spader

Sound:
Oscar Mitt

Sound Assistant:
Ben Williams

Sound Editor:
Larry Blake
Ron Bartlett
Steven Soderbergh

Sound Mixer:
Paul Ledford

Sound Re-Recording Mixer:
Larry Blake

Sound Recordist:
Matthew C. Beville

Still Photographer:
Diana Gary

Unit Production Manager:
John Hardy

Writer:
Steven Soderbergh

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