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Full Frontal

  • 2002
  • R
  • 1h 41m
IMDb RATING
4.7/10
11K
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Full Frontal (2002)
Home Video Trailer from Miramax
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2 Videos
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ComedyRomance

A day in the life of a group of men and women in Hollywood, in the hours leading up to a friend's birthday party.A day in the life of a group of men and women in Hollywood, in the hours leading up to a friend's birthday party.A day in the life of a group of men and women in Hollywood, in the hours leading up to a friend's birthday party.

  • Director
    • Steven Soderbergh
  • Writer
    • Coleman Hough
  • Stars
    • Julia Roberts
    • David Hyde Pierce
    • David Duchovny
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  • IMDb RATING
    4.7/10
    11K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Steven Soderbergh
    • Writer
      • Coleman Hough
    • Stars
      • Julia Roberts
      • David Hyde Pierce
      • David Duchovny
    • 169User reviews
    • 104Critic reviews
    • 45Metascore
  • See more at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 2 nominations

    Videos2

    Full Frontal
    Trailer 0:49
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    Trailer 0:48
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    Photos21

    Julia Roberts and Blair Underwood in Full Frontal (2002)
    Julia Roberts and Blair Underwood in Full Frontal (2002)
    Julia Roberts in Full Frontal (2002)
    Blair Underwood in Full Frontal (2002)
    Julia Roberts and Blair Underwood in Full Frontal (2002)
    Julia Roberts and Blair Underwood in Full Frontal (2002)
    Catherine Keener in Full Frontal (2002)
    Blair Underwood and Julia Roberts in Steven Soderbergh's FULL FRONTAL.
    Catherine Keener in Full Frontal (2002)
    Steven Soderbergh in Full Frontal (2002)
    Steven Soderbergh at an event for Full Frontal (2002)
    Steven Soderbergh at an event for Full Frontal (2002)

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    Julia Roberts
    Julia Roberts
    • Francesca…
    David Hyde Pierce
    David Hyde Pierce
    • Carl
    David Duchovny
    David Duchovny
    • Gus
    Nicky Katt
    Nicky Katt
    • Hitler
    Catherine Keener
    Catherine Keener
    • Lee
    Mary McCormack
    Mary McCormack
    • Linda
    Blair Underwood
    Blair Underwood
    • Calvin…
    Enrico Colantoni
    Enrico Colantoni
    • Arty…
    Erika Alexander
    Erika Alexander
    • Lucy
    Tracy Vilar
    Tracy Vilar
    • Heather
    Brandon Keener
    Brandon Keener
    • Francesca's Assistant
    Jeff Garlin
    Jeff Garlin
    • Harvey, probably
    David Alan Basche
    David Alan Basche
    • Nicholas's Agent
    Terence Stamp
    Terence Stamp
    • Man on Plane…
    Nancy Lenehan
    Nancy Lenehan
    • Woman on Plane
    Brad Rowe
    Brad Rowe
    • Sam Osborne
    David Fincher
    David Fincher
    • Film Director
    Jerry Weintraub
    Jerry Weintraub
    • Jerry
    • Director
      • Steven Soderbergh
    • Writer
      • Coleman Hough
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    Storyline

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    • Trivia
      Steven Soderbergh attached the following list of rules to the screenplay to his low budget ($2 M) film with a huge list of stars:
      • 1. All sets are practical locations.
      • 2. You will drive yourself to the set. If you are unable to drive yourself, a driver will pick you up, but you will probably become the subject of ridicule. Either way, you must arrive alone.
      • 3. There will be no craft service, so you should arrive on set "having had". Meals will vary in quality.
      • 4. You will pick, provide, and maintain your own wardrobe.
      • 5. You will create and maintain your own hair and make-up.
      • 6. There will be no trailers. The company will attempt to provide holding areas near a given location, but don't count on it. If you need to be alone a lot, you're pretty much screwed.
      • 7. Improvisation will be encouraged.
      • 8. You will be interviewed about your character. This material may end up in the film.
      • 9. You will be interviewed about the other characters. This material may end up in the finished film.
      • 10. You will have fun whether you want to or not. If any of these guidelines are problematic for you, stop reading now and send this screenplay back where it came from.
    • Goofs
      Catherine's black notebook and pen suddenly appear on the airplane armrest between shots, after her tape player clicks.
    • Quotes

      Carl: I think Lee is like... Have you ever seen a dog get hit by a car but walk away? And there's this impact and you know something terrible has happened to that dog but it walks away and it doesn't seem to even realize the implications cause it just goes on. But you know that something terrible has happened inside this dog. That's, I think, what happened to Lee. It's like she's a dog that got hit by a car, and she walked away and she's still walking, but some very, very important things inside her are damaged.

    • Crazy credits
      Brad Pitt is credited as playing 2 characters: "Brad Pitt" and "Himself".
    • Alternate versions
      An extended version was released in 2013 in the Blu-Ray released by Echo Bridge Entertainment. It runs for 112 min (instead of 101 in the theatrical version) and expands several scenes, rearranges the order of some others and takes out two scenes.
    • Connections
      Featured in Siskel & Ebert: Blood Work/Full Frontal/The Master of Disguise/Martin Lawrence Live: Runteldat (2002)
    • Soundtracks
      Sarah
      Composed and Orchestrated by Jacques Davidovici

      Published by Telfrance (Administered by Marada USA/Criterion, for USA and Canada)

    User reviews169

    Review
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    Featured review
    Explores New Ground
    Director Steven Soderbergh calls Full Frontal the unofficial sequel to Sex Lies and Videotape, his groundbreaking 1989 film. Most everyone else has called it a mess, or useless waste of time. One prominent American critic even suggested this might be the worst film ever by a major director. I can't say I agree with the harsh criticism. While I'm not exactly sure what the movie is about, and vast passages of it simply do not work, I do think it is a film with great passion and energy. Soderbergh has left behind the slickness of Ocean's 11 and Erin Brockovich and made an experimental film that bristles with inventiveness. Not everything works, but there are several nice performances, particularly by David Hyde Pierce and Catherine Keener and I enjoyed watching an A-list director stray from the tried and true and explore rockier ground.
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    • mrchaos33
    • Jul 5, 2003

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    • Release date
      • August 2, 2002 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • How to Survive a Hotel Room Fire
    • Filming locations
      • New York City, New York, USA
    • Production companies
      • Miramax
      • Populist Pictures
      • Monophonic Inc.
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    Box office

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    • Budget
      • $2,000,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $2,512,846
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $739,834
      • Aug 4, 2002
    • Gross worldwide
      • $3,438,804
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    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      1 hour 41 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • DTS
      • Dolby Digital
      • SDDS
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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