Synopsis
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.
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Cast
- Andie MacDowellAnn Bishop Mullany
- Peter GallagherJohn Mullany
- James SpaderGraham Dalton
- Laura San GiacomoCynthia Bishop
- Ron VawterTherapist
- Steven BrillBarfly
- Alexandra RootGirl on Tape
- Earl T. TaylorLandlord
- David FoilJohn's Colleague
Recommandations
- 100
Rolling Stone
A movie of prodigious power and feeling that is also high-spirited, hilarious and scorchingly erotic. - 100
San Francisco Chronicle
The kind of picture to whip out the clichés for: Surprisingly original. Delightful. Brilliant. Funny as all heck. When 1989 is through, sex, lies, and videotape may well be remembered as the best film of the year. [11 Aug 1989, Daily Datebook, p.E1] - 100
Los Angeles Times
Electrifying… As writer, director and editor, [Soderbergh’s] control is mesmerizing. It's also more than a little creepy; as though Soderbergh were drawing us, a step at a time, into a warm pool where intimate secrets flowed back and forth as simply as currents of water. [4 Aug 1989, Calendar, p.6-1] - 100
The New Republic
Soderbergh is helped enormously by the interplay of his actors, whom he has cast like a master... [He makes] a film that goes past what it shows to disclose what can't be seen. It's a fine achievement. [4 Sept 1989, p.26] - 88
Chicago Sun-Times
It has more intelligence than heart, and is more clever than enlightening. But it is never boring, and there are moments when it reminds us of how sexy the movies used to be, back in the days when speech was an erogenous zone. - 88
USA Today
Twenty years ago, you could view early works of big-splash directors and often tell where they were coming from - or going. Yet Soderbergh and his debut project are mysteries. What can possibly come next? You won't be able to drag me out of line opening night. [4 Aug 1989, Life, p.1D] - 80
Chicago Reader
Cunningly scripted and acted, and talky in the best sense, the film is engrossing to watch but not especially interesting to ponder afterward; it's certainly an improvement on formulaic Hollywood, but on a thematic level there's still more windup than delivery. - 75
Entertainment Weekly
Compulsively watchable.
