- Fuck (film)
Infobox Film
name=Fuck
caption=The movie that dare not speak its name.
director=Steve Anderson
producer=Steve Anderson
Executive Producers=Steven G. Kaplan, Gregg L. Daniel, Bruce Leiserowitz, Jory Weitz
Co-Producers=Ian Kennedy, Christine Pechera, Christine Beebe
music=Carvin Knowles
cinematography=Andre Fontanelle
Companies=Rainstorm Entertainment, Mudflap Films
distributor=THINKFilm
released=November 7 ,2005
runtime=93 min.
language=English
budget=
preceded_by=
followed_by=
imdb_id=0486585"Fuck" (sometime titled as FUCK or The "F" Word; seen on the poster as F★ck and on DVD packaging as F★ck: (A F★ckumentary)) 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, artists, musicians, filmmakers, authors, porn stars, politicians, and media personalities as well as clips fromGeorge Carlin , "Scarface",Country Joe and the Fish 'sWoodstock performance, PresidentGeorge W. Bush 's one-fingered salute to a camera, variousLenny Bruce performances,U2 's Golden Globe acceptance, Paul Robert Cohen's protest and Nipplegate, accompanied with animated segues created byBill Plympton . The movie was shown for the first time onNovember 7 ,2005 at the AFI Film Festival.Interviewees
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The Basics
*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 andACLU 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 forConcerned Women for America )
*Bill Maher
*Miss Manners
*Dave Marsh
*Michael Medved
*David Milch
*Alanis Morissette
*Geoffrey Nunberg (Stanford linguist and contributor to theAmerican Heritage Dictionary )
*Tera Patrick
*Robert W. Peters (president of Morality in Media, Inc., anti-pornography advocate)
*Dennis Prager
*Robert Corn Revere (First Amendmentlawyer )
*Evan Seinfeld of Biohazard
*David Shaw
*Jesse Sheidlower (principal editor of theOxford English Dictionary )
*David Skover (First Amendment scholar and co-author of "The Trials ofLenny Bruce ")
*Kevin Smith
*Hunter S. Thompson
*Sandra Tsing Loh
*Alfred DerlethSee also
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List of films that most frequently use the word "fuck"
*"The Aristocrats", a similar film discussing a notoriously dirty joke.References
External links
*imdb title|id=0486585|title=Fuck
* [http://www.indiewire.com/ots/2005/11/dispatch_from_l.html Movie review on indieWIRE]
* [http://www.fourletterfilm.com/ Official Site]
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