Steven Soderbergh's indie hit about the tangled relationships among four people and a video camera, was a sensation at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Palme d'Or and an award for James Spader as best actor. It went on to revolutionise the independent film movement of the early nineties. Soderbergh conceived the film over a year but wrote the script in just over a week (apparently on a yellow legal pad whilst on a cross country road trip). It is light on action and heavy on chat, and has probably been overhyped, it is the type of movie people like to name check at dinner parties just to show how on the pulse they are. Soderbergh originally wanted Elizabeth McGovern to play the role of the sexually reluctant Ann, but her agent apparently hated the script so much that she never even got to read it. The part went to Andie MacDowell instead, who impressed after two successful auditions. In 2006 the movie was selected and preserved by the United States National Film Registry as being deemed as culturally significant. Sex, Lies and Videotape has also been adapted into a stage play, and the 2002 movie Full Frontal was originally conceived as an unofficial sequel of sorts.