Sex, Lies, and Videotape

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Ranked #46 in Screenplay

The annotated screenplay and production notes from the award-winning and extremely popular movie, including an essay about the origins and making of the film by its highly acclaimed writer/director. Illustrated. less

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Charles Cumming The story of sex, lies and videotape is the story of a marriage between a lawyer, who is having an affair with his wife’s sister, a savvy, sassy barmaid, and his rather straitlaced, you might say frigid, wife, played by Andy MacDowell. And into their lives comes a character played by James Spader, an old university friend of the husband. It’s at least ten years since they were at college. Spader’s character has changed a great deal in that time and has rejected corporate, bourgeois suburban life. He’s also impotent. He gets his kicks by winning the trust of women – he’s very honest about who... (Source)


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