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Fletcher Munson has a doppelgänger in dentist Dr. Jeffrey Korchek. In his only starring performance to date, acclaimed director Steven Soderbergh inhabits both roles: Munson, onanistic corporate drone and speechwriter for New Age guru T. Azimuth Schwitters, and the swinging Korchek, Muzak enthusiast and lover to Munson’s disenchanted wife. Meanwhile, mad exterminator and part-time celebrity prima donna Elmo Oxygen seduces local housewives in secret code and plots against Schwitters. Placing the onus squarely on the viewer (“If you don’t understand this film, it’s your fault and not ours”), writer/director/editor/cameraman Soderbergh presents a deranged comedy of confused identity, doublespeak, and white-knuckled corporate intrigue, confirming his status as one of America’s most daring and unpredictable filmmakers.




New cover by Neil Kellerhouse


 Fletcher Munson/Dr. Jeffrey Korchek
Betsy Brantley
Mrs. Munson/Attractive Woman #2
David Jensen
Elmo Oxygen
Mike Malone
T. Azimuth Schwitters
Eddie Jemison
Nameless Numberhead Man
Scott Allen
Right-Hand Man
Katherine La Nasa
Attractive Woman #1
C.C. Courtney
Man Being Interviewed
Liann Pattison
Mysterious Couple (Female)
Silas Cooper
Mysterious Couple (Male)
Sarah Soderbergh
Fletcher’s Daughter
Peter Soderbergh
Lester Richards
Park Seward
TV Commercial Announcer
Fritzi Bjorndahl
Numbers woman


John Hardy
Cliff Martinez
Joseph Wilkins
Harry Garfield
Mark Mangini
Sarah Flack
Production sound mixers
Paul Ledford
Whit Norris
Key grip
Boom operator
Darrin Dickerson
Sound editing
Rerecording mixer
Larry Blake
 Nicolas Roeg’s Top 10

 Diablo Cody’s Top 10



Whatever else it may be—a riotous Möbius strip of deranged word games and doppelgänger metaphysics, a scalding allegory of professional and personal disappointment, the missing link between Ferdinand de Saussure and Kentucky Fried Movie—Steven …

By Dennis Lim

Oct 28, 2003 

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