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| Executive Producers = Steven G. Kaplan, Gregg L. Daniel, Bruce Leiserowitz, Jory Weitz | ||
| | Co-Producers = Ian Kennedy, Christine Pechera, Christine Beebe | | Co-Producers = Ian Kennedy, Christine Pechera, Christine Beebe | ||
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| | runtime = 90 min. | | runtime = 90 min. | ||
| | language = English | | language = English | ||
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2006 film| Fuck | |
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 The movie that dare not speak its name. | |
| Directed by | Steve Anderson |
| Produced by | Steve Anderson |
| Cinematography | Andre Fontanelle |
| Music by | Carvin Knowles |
| Distributed by | THINKfilm |
| Release dates | November 10, 2006 |
| Running time | 90 min. |
| Language | English |
Fuck (sometimes titled as F* or The "F" Word) is a 2006 documentary 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.
Trivia
The film is dedicated to Hunter S. Thompson, who committed suicide not long after being interviewed.
It uses the eponymous word 800+ times over 90 minutes, for a total of 8.88 uses per minute.
Bill Plympton provided the animated segues for the film.
Co-Producer Christine Pechera is suffering from Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma.
The film contains a painting (United States Censorship) by Canadian political artist Charles Alexander Moffat.
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)
- 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 contributer 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
References
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