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Sex, Lies, and Videotape ()


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A sexually repressed woman's husband is having an affair with her sister. The arrival of a visitor with a rather unusual fetish changes everything.

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Graham
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Ann
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John
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Cynthia
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Therapist
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Barfly
Alexandra Root ...
Girl on Tape
Earl T. Taylor ...
Landlord
David Foil ...
John's Colleague

Directed by

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Steven Soderbergh

Written by

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Steven Soderbergh ... (written by)

Produced by

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John Hardy ... producer (produced by)
Morgan Mason ... executive producer
Robert F. Newmyer ... producer (produced by) (as Robert Newmyer)
Nancy Tenenbaum ... executive producer
Nick Wechsler ... executive producer

Music by

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Cliff Martinez ... (music by)

Cinematography by

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Walt Lloyd ... (photographed by)

Editing by

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Steven Soderbergh ... picture editor

Editorial Department

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Scott Hill ... negative cutter
Dan Muscarella ... color timer
Steve New ... negative cutter
Richard Garibaldi ... home video mastering colorist (uncredited)

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Deborah Aquila ... (casting by)

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Joanne Schmidt

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Victoria Spader

Makeup Department

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Sabrina Lopez ... hair stylist
James Ryder ... makeup artist
Amanda Schuler ... hair stylist
Kim Pease ... makeup trainee (uncredited)

Production Management

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John Hardy ... unit production manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director

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Mike Dempsey ... first assistant director (as Michael Dempsey)
Alexandra Root ... second assistant director

Art Department

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Bonnie Amos ... artwork
Amy Archinal ... artwork
Bill Cancienne ... swing crew chief
Aaron Glascock ... property master

Sound Department

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Vanessa Theme Ament ... foley artist (as Vanessa Ament)
Larry Blake ... sound editor / sound re-recordist
Scott Chandler ... foley recordist
David W. Gray ... stereo sound consultant: Dolby
Paul Ledford ... production sound mixer
David E. Stone ... foley editor (as Dave Stone)
Stephen Tyler ... boom operator
Ben Williams ... sound assistant
Ron Bartlett ... sound editor (uncredited)
Matthew C. Beville ... sound recordist (uncredited)
Oscar Mitt ... sound (uncredited)
Dave Moreno ... weddington recordist (uncredited)
Steven Soderbergh ... sound editor (uncredited) / sound re-recordist (uncredited)

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Gunter Anderson ... stunts (uncredited)

Camera and Electrical Department

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Phil Beard ... gaffer
Tony Brignac ... second assistant camera
Buddy Carr ... electrician
Gilly Charbonnet ... grip
Michael Charbonnet ... first assistant camera
Jonathan Coney ... grip
Diana Gary ... still photographer
David Jensen ... best boy
Bennie Robertson ... generator operator
J.D. Streett ... key grip

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Philip Jostrom ... casting assistant

Costume and Wardrobe Department

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Amanda Moore ... wardrobe
James Ryder ... costumer

Music Department

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Larry Blake ... music recordist
Mark A. Mangini ... musician: acoustic guitar (as Mark Mangini)
Sharal Churchill ... soundtrack consultant (uncredited)
Ezra Dweck ... original music recordist (uncredited)
Stephen Hunter Flick ... original music recordist (uncredited)

Script and Continuity Department

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Elizabeth Lambert ... script supervisor

Transportation Department

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Susan Bonfils ... driver
Ross Neill ... driver

Additional Crew

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Howard Behar ... legal services
Melissa Benedetto ... production assistant
Jim Brannon ... caterer
Billy Collins Jr. ... production accountant
Davis Guggenheim ... production coordinator: Los Angeles
John Kao ... production executive
Louis Koerner ... production assistant
Nancy Mcintosh ... production coordinator: Los Angeles (as Nancy McIntosh)
Harris M. Miller II ... legal services (as Harris Miller)
Robert Mintz ... completion bond
Rusty Smith ... caterer
Harold Welb ... production consultant
Solomon J. LeFlore ... production financing (uncredited)

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Richard L. Anderson ... special thanks (as Richard Anderson)
Mark Cohen ... special thanks
Anne Dollard ... dedicatee (as Ann Dollard)
John Dunn ... special thanks
Frank Duvic ... special thanks
Stephen Hunter Flick ... special thanks (as Stephen Flick)
Laura Guissinger ... special thanks
Roger Guissinger ... special thanks
Anne Humphreys ... special thanks
Chris Jenkins ... special thanks
Tom Kobayashi ... special thanks
Bill Lemoine ... special thanks
Mark A. Mangini ... special thanks (as Mark Mangini)
Steve Mathis ... special thanks
Julianne Nachtrab ... special thanks
P. Scott Sakamoto ... special thanks (as Scott Sakamoto)
Roger Savage ... special thanks
Kevin Shingleton ... special thanks
Crew believed to be complete

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Plot Summary

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. Written by Huggo

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Taglines Cine independiente USA See more »
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Also Known As
  • Sex, Lies... (United States)
  • sex, lies, and videotape (World-wide, English title)
  • Sexe, mensonges & vidéo (France)
  • Sexe, mensonges et vidéo (France)
  • Sex, Lügen und Video (Germany)
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Runtime
  • 100 min
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Budget $1,200,000 (estimated)

Did You Know?

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Trivia The film was playing in Berlin's largest movie theaters when the Berlin Wall fell. A lot of East Germans crossing over to West Berlin went to see it, expecting Western-style porn. See more »
Goofs When Graham is interviewing Ann, Ann sets the camera down on the arm of the chair pointing at the window away from the couch. When Graham gets up to turn it off, it is pointing at the couch. See more »
Movie Connections Featured in Sex, Lies, and Videotape/Young Einstein/Parenthood/The Music Teacher (1989). See more »
Soundtracks Garbage See more »
Crazy Credits This film is dedicated to Ann Dollard 1956-1988 See more »
Quotes Graham: I remember reading somewhere that men learn to love the person that they're attracted to, and that women become more and more attracted to the person that they love.
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