SEX, LIES, AND VIDEOTAPE Tribute to Miramax: Ten Years of Hits

The Grand Prize winner at Cannes in 1989, sex, lies and videotape proved to be one of the most successful American independent films to receive distribution. “Sex, lies and videotape, starring Andie MacDowell, Peter Gallagher and James Spader, is one of the best American independent films in quite a long while, a sexy, nuanced, beautifully controlled examination of how a quartet of people are defined by their erotic impulses and inhibitions. What’s really impressive about Soderbergh’s work here is the cool precision with which he both unfolds the unusual story, and probes ever further into the private recesses of the characters’ sexual makeups. Few American films attempt this sort of ambitious psychological analysis, and this new writer-director has succeeded memorably.” -Todd McCarthy, Variety