Fuck (film)
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| Fuck | |
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 The movie that dare not speak its name. |
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| Directed by | Steve Anderson |
| Produced by | Steve Anderson |
| Music by | Carvin Knowles |
| Cinematography | Andre Fontanelle |
| Distributed by | THINKfilm |
| Release date(s) | November 7, 2005 |
| Running time | 93 min. |
| Language | English |
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Fuck (sometimes titled as F* or The "F" Word; seen on the poster as F*ck and on DVD packaging a F*ck: A Documentary) is a 2005 documentary by director/producer Steve Anderson about the social, political, personal, historical, linguistic and artistic significance of the word fuck. It features commentary by a variety of individuals, including linguists, comics, musicians, filmmakers, authors, porn stars, politicians, and media personalities as well as clips from George Carlin, Scarface, Country Joe and the Fish's Woodstock performance, President George W. Bush's one-fingered salute to a camera, various Lenny Bruce performances, U2's Golden Globe acceptance, Paul Robert Cohen's protest and Nipplegate. The movie was shown for the first time on November 7, 2005 at the AFI Film Festival.
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[edit] Trivia
- The film is dedicated to Hunter S. Thompson, who committed suicide not long after being interviewed.
- It uses the word "fuck" more times than any other movie ever made, including it more than 800 times in 93 minutes, for an average of more than 8.6 "fuck"s per minute. The DVD release includes an optional "curse counter" function that keeps a visual record of the number of appearances of the word both verbally and visually in the film.
- Bill Plympton provided the animated segues for the film.
- The film contains a painting (United States Censorship) by Canadian political artist Charles Alexander Moffat.
[edit] Interviewees
- Reinhold Aman (linguist)
- Pat Boone
- Benjamin C. Bradlee
- Drew Carey
- Chuck Conconi (former editor with the Washingtonian)
- Billy Connolly
- John Crossley (associate professor of religion at USC and ACLU board member)
- Chuck D
- Sam Donaldson
- Janeane Garofalo
- Ice-T
- Timothy Jay (APA award winner and profanity expert. Author of Cursing in America and Why We Curse. Psychology Professor at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts)
- Ron Jeremy
- Alan Keyes
- Janet M. LaRue (chief legal counsel for Concerned Women for America)
- Bill Maher
- Miss Manners
- Dave Marsh
- Michael Medved
- David Milch
- Alanis Morissette
- Geoffrey Nunberg (Stanford linguist and contributor to the American Heritage Dictionary)
- Tera Patrick
- Robert W. Peters (president of Morality in Media, Inc., anti-pornography advocate)
- Dennis Prager
- Robert Corn Revere (First Amendment lawyer)
- Evan Seinfeld of Biohazard
- David Shaw
- Jesse Sheidlower (principal editor of the Oxford English Dictionary)
- David Skover (First Amendment scholar and co-author of The Trials of Lenny Bruce)
- Kevin Smith
- Hunter S. Thompson
- Sandra Tsing Loh
- Alfred Derleth
