Product Details

• Actors: Erika Alexander, David Alan Basche, Enrico Colantoni, David Duchovny, David Fincher
• Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: French (Unknown), English (Dolby Digital 5.1)
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Studio: Miramax
• DVD Release Date: February 11, 2003
• Run Time: 101 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (46 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00007K02C
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #69,057 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

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Director Steven Soderbergh brings a playful spirit and a touch of genius to this oddly gentle Hollywood exposé. Full Frontal follows the lives of several people connected by varying degrees to the production of Rendez Vous, the film within the film that itself contains a film within a film. This layering and teasing of movie-industry standbys happens throughout: L.A. Law star Blair Underwood plays an actor who plays an actor who is a TV star who is making the jump to the big screen, major stars pop up as bit players playing themselves, and even the opening credits are a sly, dead-on parody of opening credits. The actors are clearly having a terrific time skewering movie insiders and, like any members of a family, are allowed to be both more affectionate and more vicious to each other than outsiders. Standouts in a uniformly marvelous ensemble cast include David Hyde Pierce as one of the screenwriters, and Nicky Katt as an actor doing a truly wretched Hitler. Full Frontal is beautifully written, beautifully performed, and brilliantly realized. --Ali Davis

Product Description
Academy Award(R)-winner Julia Roberts (Best Actress, ERIN BROCKOVICH, 2000), David Duchovny (THE X-FILES), and Blair Underwood (RULES OF ENGAGEMENT) star in another acclaimed triumph from Oscar(R)-winning director Steven Soderbergh (Best Director, TRAFFIC, 2001). It's a chaotic day for seven strangers from Hollywood who end up at the birthday party of a mutual friend. Before the night is over, relationships are tested, hearts are broken, and passions are renewed! Also starring David Hyde Pierce (TV's FRASIER), Catherine Keener (BEING JOHN MALKOVICH), Mary McCormack (K-PAX), and Nicky Katt (INSOMNIA).

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13 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars something creative, new, insightful, August 3, 2002

By	Chad (LOS EEUU) - See all my reviews

So far, I have only read negative reviews, but after viewing the film, I have only positive words for it. I believe that many will not like it b/c it does not feed them the same mindless pap that studios are offering this summer, i.e. Austin Powers, XXX, and Mr. Deeds. This film, thus, is not for everyone. What it has to say about reality is very important, and many will not like its postmodern aura b/c it so closely resembles our lives, and it is true. The film was insightful, funny, and moving to the point that it made me feel uncomfortable about my presuppositions, my philosophy, and the way I live my life. And if 1hr45 of videotape can do that, then Full Frontal is worthy of 5 stars.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars For students only., May 13, 2003

By A Customer

This is the kind of thing they make film and acting students watch. The idea is to show how much you can accomplish on a shoestring, with the actors encouraged to improvise. Despite the emphasis on craft, the actors come across as playing themselves. David Duchovny is bored; Katherine Keener is beautiful but arrogant; Blair Underwood is just arrogant and so on.

What this actually shows is how you can take some of the hottest actors in the world and make a self-absorbed and spectacularly dull movie. Woody Allen might have been able to breathe some life into this. Maybe.

How dull? I rented Full Frontal along with Jackass. Hard to say which was more painful.

12 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars A Noble Failure, August 12, 2002

By	MICHAEL ACUNA (Southern California United States) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

Steven Soderbergh's "Full Frontal" attempts to confront the real from the imaginary, the true from the false. The movie is billed, as the true successor to "Sex, Lies and Videotape" but is it really?
Soderbergh has done some amazing things since SLV: "Traffic," "Erin Brockavich," "Out of Sight" and "The Limey." His mastery of the screen cannot be denied but unfortunately "Full Frontal" comes off only as weak and insipid...not as a companion piece to the milestone achievement that was "SLV."

"Full Frontal" is a story about what it is to deal with and in the Hollywood of the year 2002. There is a film being made starring Julia Roberts and Blair Underwood and then there is purportedly the back-story starring a who's who of Hollywood...even a cameo by Brad Pitt.
The most interesting things about this film have to do with the physical production: the very grainy texture of the film, the story-within-a-story-within-a-story, the nouvelle vague-ish filming on the run quality. But Soderbergh pays so much attention to the physical production and the problems inherent therein that he fails to notice that the basic plot of the film is lacking in dramatic weight and therefore even the best actors have little of which to take a hold.
Chalk "Full Frontal" as a failure per se but a noble failure coming from one of our truly great contemporary directors.