sex, lies, and videotape

“the husband. the wife. her sister. his friend.”

In a stiff, comfortable American marriage in 1989, Ann Mullany (Andie MacDowell) talks to a therapist (Ron Vawter) about the distance between her and her husband John (Peter Gallagher), who is sleeping with her sister Cynthia (Laura San Giacomo). Then John's old friend Graham (James Spader) turns up, a quiet man who records women talking about sex. Steven Soderbergh leaves Graham with his camera and his tapes.