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2005 film

Fuck
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 7, 2005
Running time	93 min.
Language	English

For the 1969 film by Andy Warhol, see Blue Movie.

Fuck (sometimes titled as F* or The "F" Word) 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, but the theatrical release for the USA is planned for November 10 2006.

Trivia

The film is dedicated to Hunter S. Thompson, who committed suicide not long after being interviewed.
It uses the eponymous word 629 times over 93 minutes, for a total of 6.76 uses per minute.
Bill Plympton provided the animated segues for the film.
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. 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 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

See also

List of films that most frequently use the word fuck

References

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