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A contemporary comedy set in Los Angeles, Full Frontal traces the complicated relationship among seven friends as they deal with the fragile connections that bind them together. Full Frontal takes place during a twenty-four hour period - a day in the life of missed connections.

David Duchovny Nicky Katt Catherine Keener Mary McCormack David Hyde Pierce Julia Roberts Blair Underwood

romance drama indie comedy

96 mins   More details at IMDb / TMDb

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  • the_narrator

    Review by the_narrator ★★★½

    (Reposted from Soderbergh review series)

    It says something about the power Steven Soderbergh held in 2002 that he could get something like Full Frontal made. On a studio’s dime, no less. He had already won an Oscar for Traffic, and he proved himself to be a fantastic commercial director with Erin Brockovich and Ocean’s Eleven. So maybe Miramax trusted him when he came to them with the idea for the film, a wildly noncommercial film about the lives of several people in Hollywood, intercut with scenes from a movie-within-the-movie about a romance between a journalist and a man making a movie. Got all that? Unsurprisingly, Full Frontal failed to set the box office on fire, and critics were confused and…

  • akiva

    Review by akiva

    Soderbergh's Left Coast remake of Symbiopsychotaxiplasm should be appreciated as such. Takes a while to learn the rules of this game, but after that it's pretty funny and sometimes more than that.

  • Ben Gordon

    Review by Ben Gordon ★★★★

    I think FULL FRONTAL kind of got a raw deal. Maybe it still does, considering it's rarely discussed when people talk about Soderbergh's filmography as a whole. But here's the thing: it's a lot of fun, especially if you enjoy Sod's forays into more experimental fare (ie: SCHIZOPOLIS). The film deals with a group of Hollywood types and their involvement in a film-within-a-film-(possibly-within-another-film), captured with a very loose, almost improvisational aesthetic. The standout of the bunch is David Hyde Pierce, who clearly needs to be hired more often for his talent and comedic timing.

    I wish Soderbergh had worked with writer Coleman Hough once more pre-retirement. This and BUBBLE really solidified their collaborative strength. Give both movies a try.

    The poster for this film is incredibly dishonest.

  • Ben Trout

    Review by Ben Trout ★★★½

    The use of such diverse layers of reality as a medium for mocking the film industry seems like a much better idea, if compared to something like, say, Simone - where a digital actress is the host victim (or is she) of a billion dated Hollywood jokes. I still think mocking the film industry is just too easy, but Soderbergh should really be nominated for another Oscar for the assorted levels of naturalism he culls from this premise - and the excitement he unfolds each layer with. I mean, every single actor felt absolutely right pulling off an admittedly difficult little stunt (improvisation levels are high - and for once it's a good thing).

  • Matthew Christman

    Review by Matthew Christman ★★★½

    Of all of the low budget, digital experiments Steven Soderbergh directed in the 00s between Ocean's movies, Full Frontal is easily the best. Unlike pretty much every other inside-Hollywood movie, Full Frontal goes beyond easy satire of the superficiality and lack of creativity of the industry (although there is plenty of that) and actually engages with the psychological transference by which film directors and writers take the raw material of their own lives and neuroses and put them on the screen. It also features one of the funniest supporting turns of the decade, with Nicky Katt as a struggling actor/pilates instruct playing a yuppie version of Hitler in a play when he isn't complaining to the director that his co-stars…

  • Ģirts Luste

    Review by Ģirts Luste ★★★

    Totāls mulsinošs mikslis,bet kaut kā joprojām saistošs