Full Frontal

Full Frontal (2002)

Timing: 1:52 (112 min)

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Release date

2002-08-02

Country

United States

Production

Miramax, Populist Pictures, Monophonic Inc.

Genre

Comedy, Romance

Budget

$2 000 000

Revenue

$3 438 804

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Director

Steven Soderbergh

Actors

David Duchovny, Nicky Katt, Catherine Keener, Mary McCormack, David Hyde Pierce, Julia Roberts, Blair Underwood, Enrico Colantoni, Erika Alexander, Tracy Vilar
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Scenario

Coleman Hough

Producer

Gregory Jacobs, Scott Kramer, Harvey Weinstein, Bob Weinstein

Operator

Steven Soderbergh

Composer

Jacques Davidovici

Artist

Audition

Debra Zane

Editing

Sarah Flack
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• David Duchovny later recounted that during the massage scene, the director demanded an erection from him, but the actor was unable to achieve one “on command,” so a prosthetic was used.
• Filming took 18 days. Steven Soderbergh shot primarily with portable digital cameras—a rather unusual step for the time, considering the participation of renowned actors in the film. The director worked here in the style of “Dogme 95”—an avant-garde movement in cinema, whose ideologists were Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg.
• Steven Soderbergh shot most of the film with a Canon XL-1s camera, which records onto MiniDV tapes. The scene in which Blair Underwood’s character interviews Julia Roberts’ character was shot on film. Later, Danny Boyle would film the post-apocalyptic film “28 Days Later” (2002) with the same camera.
• When Blair Underwood's character raps to Julia Roberts' heroine in a limousine, one of the lines contains the following words: "to kiss a beauty under the pelican moon." This is a reference to two films starring Roberts – the melodrama *Pretty Woman* (Garry Marshall, 1990) and the legal thriller *The Pelican Brief* (Alan J. Pakula, 1993).
• When sending the film's script to renowned actors, director Steven Soderbergh attached a sheet outlining the conditions under which the actors would have to work. Citing the film's modest budget ($2 million), he warned that actors would be responsible for their own transportation to and from the set, rather than being provided with limousines, and would also need to take care of their own costumes and makeup. The filmmakers would not be responsible for the quality of food on set, individual trailers would not be provided, improvisation on set was encouraged, and actors would be interviewed about their characters and other aspects, with some of the interview potentially being included in the film.
• Steven Soderbergh couldn't find anyone to play the director, so he appeared on screen himself (his face is hidden by a black square).
• David Duchovny later recounted that during the massage scene, the director demanded an erection from him, but the actor was unable to achieve one "on command," so a prosthetic was used.
• Filming took 18 days. Steven Soderbergh primarily shot using portable digital cameras – a rather unusual step for the time, considering the participation of renowned actors in the film. The director worked here in the style of "Dogme 95" – an avant-garde movement in cinema, whose ideologues were Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg.
• Steven Soderbergh shot most of the film with a Canon XL-1s camera, which records onto MiniDV tapes. The scene in which Blair Underwood's character interviews Julia Roberts' character was shot on film. Later, Danny Boyle would film the post-apocalyptic film "28 Days Later" (2002) using the same camera.
• When Blair Underwood's character raps to Julia Roberts' character in the limousine, one of the lines contains the words: "to kiss the beauty under the pelican moon." This is a reference to two films starring Roberts – the melodrama "Pretty Woman" (Gary Marshall, 1990) and the legal thriller "The Pelican Brief" (Alan J. Pakula, 1993).