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	Full Frontal
	Steven Soderbergh Julia Roberts, Blair Underwood, David Duchovny, Catherine Keener, David Hyde Pierce, Mary McCormack, Enrico Colantoni, Nicky Katt, Brad Pitt 2002		You've got to hand it to Steven Soderbergh. The director has entered the upper echelon of his profession with a string of acclaimed films — "Out of Sight," "The Limey," "Erin Brockovich" and "Traffic" — that have done well at the box office and even won a few Oscars. Yet he had no compunction about turning around and making "Full Frontal," a quickie shot-on-digital-video cogitation on modern love and the relationship between reel life and real life. Julia Roberts and Brad Pitt, big stars who have worked with Soderbergh before, refrained from the usual stratospheric salary demands and accepted scale to appear in this movie within a movie within a movie. The stellar cast also includes David Duchovny, Catherine Keener, David Hyde Pierce, Mary McCormack and Blair Underwood. It's a fascinating, somewhat frivolous undertaking about the Hollywood shuffle on multiple levels, as actors, screenwriters, producers and their loved ones play out their romantic and professional destinies over the course of a day.