Watch Full Frontal For Free

One of my all time favorites.

Boring

a film so unique, intoxicating and bizarre that it not only demands another viewing, but is also forgivable as a satirical comedy where the jokes eventually take the back seat.

The acting in this movie is really good.

It's the day of the birthday party for Gus (David Duchovny). Movie stars Francesca Davis (Julia Roberts) and Calvin Cummings (Blair Underwood) meet at the airport as Catherine interviewing actor Nicholas. They fly from NY to LA. Lee Bright (Catherine Keener) is an arrogant, ambitious executive tired of her writer husband Carl Bright (David Hyde Pierce). Linda Sharp (Mary McCormack) is her masseuse sister. Small theater director (Enrico Colantoni) is doing a play about Hitler (Nicky Katt).This is an artsy poignant-wannabe. There is nothing more pretentious than an amateur play about Hitler. This is disjointed. The characters are only compelling because of the high class actors. Even the movie title is pretentious. It is lifeless and tiresome to watch. Director Steven Soderbergh often do experimental stuff. The problem is that none of these stories appeal to me.

Full Frontal (2002): Dir: Steven Soderbergh / Cast: Julia Roberts, Blaire Underwood, Mary McCormack, Catherine Keener, David Duchovny: Both Steven Soderbergh and Julia Roberts made two overrated stupid movies called Erin Brockovich and Ocean's 11. Now comes a worthwhile effort for Roberts but not for Soderbergh. Title regards issues skirted around as oppose to facing. Blaire Underwood plays a black actor interviewed by Julia Roberts but he believes she wrote him a love letter. A husband is unaware of his wife's affair or her willingness to end their marriage. Or that plastic bag used by a massage client after talking women into giving him a hand job. Intriguing concept with detailed subplots but editing is sloppy and Soderbergh hardly matches his shots jumping from one scene to another. Examples of his better works include Traffic and Out of Sight where his talent is on target. Underwood and Roberts have great chemistry. Mary McCormack gets more than she bargained for from a massage client. Catherine Keener is a depressed housewife looking for love in all the wrong places. David Duchovny also makes an appearance outside his usual X-Files familiarity. Great ensemble cast involved in a variety of subplots make this an interesting take on connecting. Often disjointed yet detailed portrayal of the broken lives we often lead. Score: 8 / 10

I have been reading the comments to Full Frontal in the hopes that someone could explain the plot, since I didn't understand the action. At all. And yet, I really enjoyed the movie! I think there really isn't a typical story - it's not a problem of having to unravel a circuitous, circular, fragmented, or some other off-beat storytelling style in order to understand the plot. I don't think there is one. So, I suppose, one could say it's a pointless movie.Except.Each scene was really wonderful - I was pulled into each conversation (or wacky interaction, in the case of Catherine Keener's character) so thoroughly that I felt I understood each character as if they were a colleague or neighbor. Even when it became apparent I had no idea what had just happened - with the movie-in a movie-in a movie thing - I felt like I'd just hung out with these folks and felt their anxiety, their worry, their sadness, their pompousness, their shame, their need....their humanity. Even David Hyde Pierce on the phone made me feel that way!So, perhaps one should view this film as a series of vignettes (or snippets), rather than as a movie with a beginning, middle and end. I would recommend this movie for people who don't know a thing about digital vs video vs film, hand held or dolly or whatever cameras, or anything technical about movie-making (like me), but who like really great acting and strangely attracting things. Full Frontal is kinda like a lava lamp, and all other movies are Pier One decorations...

The explanation for this and Solaris maybe that the director was contractually obliged to make those 2 before leaving. Brad Pitt sole appearance is as he walks down a street in one scene and that is all he does. Almost the whole audience in the cinema screen I was in walked out. The same happened in the George Clooney film Solaris and Dancing at the Blue Iguana in which the cast seem to be trying to improvise lines whilst under the influence of semi sedation. Is a hodge podge which I have almost successfully blocked from my mind. Even if you are on a desert island and a passing native offers you the chance to watch this film in his solar power raft and you haven't watched films for 10 years. Do not watch this. It will make the effort of sustaining your life hunting and fishing seem worthless.