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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Sony
EAN: 9780767812153
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0767812158
Label: Sony Pictures
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Region Code: 1
Release Date: October 07, 1998
Running Time: 100 minutes
Sales Rank: 6483
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: August 18, 1989
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
When a long lost college friend working on a very personal project moves back to town the relationships between a philandering husband his wife and his wifes sister are forever transformed in this smart and seductive comic original. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 08/31/2004 Starring: James Spader Peter Gallagher Run time: 100 minutes Rating: R Director: Steven Soderbergh
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Winner of the Palm d'Or and Best Actor awards at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival, sex, lies, and videotape transformed the independent film industry and turned writer-director Steven Soderbergh into the envy of aspiring filmmakers everywhere. Sly, seductive, and coolly intelligent, the movie explores the sexual shenanigans and personal preoccupations of its four central characters, revolving around a selfish lawyer (Peter Gallagher) who responds to his wife by having an affair with her free-spirited sister (Laura San Giacomo). But when the lawyer's college roommate (James Spader) arrives for an unexpectedly extended visit, the neglected wife (Andie MacDowell) is surprisingly responsive to his seductive hobby of videotaping women as they describe their sexual fantasies. It's his way of compensating for impotence, but the curious wife considers this a sexual challenge, and Soderbergh turns sex, lies, and videotape into a fascinating chamber piece that puts a decidedly different spin on the consequences of infidelity. Balanced on a risky and finely tuned performance by Spader, the film delivers frisky passion and emotional intrigue, and yet much of its allure is found in the exchange of secrets and the hidden mysteries of sexual desire. --Jeff Shannon
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Let's talk about sex...
One of the smartest and all around cleverest films I've had the pleasure of ever seeing; `Sex, Lies and Videotape' is a very moving and poignant study of the effect that sex has on our lives. Taking four individuals and placing them under scrutiny, Soderbergh's masterpiece single-handedly does what so many have attempted to do in the past; take sex out of the bedroom and place it in the living-room, where we all are forced to confront it.
Be aware though, despite the films rather graphic ... Read More
Rating: - Great film
Late in the movie, a character asks:
"What am I supposed to do? Am I supposed to recount all the points in my life leading up to this moment, and then hope that it's coherent; that it makes some sort of sense to you. It doesn't make any sense to me. You know, I was there. And I don't have the slightest idea who I am. And I'm supposed to be able to explain it to you..."
The film believes that open, sincere discussion can make us aware of the solutions to most of our lives' ... Read More
Rating:  - A Strange Movie
While I am always amazed by Spader, this is a really strange movie. It is really more psychological than graphic and you sort of lose the point of the whole thing. It was like he would rather hear someone talk about it than DO it, which I really don't understand but guess different strokes... HB
Rating: - Great Movie!
This is definitely a classic movie. It is wonderful and introduced Steven Sodenburgh, Neil LaBute, James Spader and Andie MacDowell to the world. The story is involves a troubled married couple, a sister who is sleeping with her sister's husband, and a strange man who enters the picture. The man had trouble in love in high school and never got over it. He has grown into a man who masturbates to video interviews with women about sex. He can't have sex with another person. This strange man, played ... Read More
Rating: - I enjoyed it while I was watching it but...
The lives of John (Peter Gallagher) and Ann (Andie MacDowell), a young married couple, and Ann's sister, Cynthia (Laura San Giacomo), are forever changed when John's school friend, Graham (James Spader), an impotent man who gets off by video taping women talking about sex, comes to visit.
I really enjoyed watching "Sex, Lies and Videotape" while I was watching it. I sat down with the intention of only watching the first half hour and ended up watching it all in one sitting because I just couldn't ... Read More
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