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Fuck (2006)

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Reviews Counted:71

Fresh:40

Rotten:31

Average Rating:5.8/10

Consensus: A documentary that sets out to explore a lingual taboo but can't escape its own naughty posturing.

Runtime: 1 hr 33 mins

Genre: Musical & Performing Arts

US Box Office: $0

Synopsis: This challenging and provocative documentary takes a look on all sides of the infamous F-word. Its taboo, obscene and controversial, yet somehow seems to permeate every single aspect of our culture... This challenging and provocative documentary takes a look on all sides of the infamous F-word. Its taboo, obscene and controversial, yet somehow seems to permeate every single aspect of our culture - from Hollywood... to the schoolyard to the Senate floor in Washington D.C. It's the word at the very center of the debate on Free Speech - and everyone seems to have an opinion. FUCK will exam how the word is impacting our world today thru interviews, film and television clips, music, and original animation by Oscar nominee Bill Plympton. Scholars and linguists will examine the long history of fuck. Comedians, actors, and writers who have charted and popularized the upward course of fuck will be heard from, often while defending the Constitutional Right of Free Speech, all the way to the Supreme Court. FUCK will visit with those who actually fuck for a living. We'll hear from advocates who oppose fuck and it's infringement into our everyday lives. We'll watch some of the most famous and infamous film and television clips that feature fuck, we'll hear some of the most famous fucks ever uttered and we'll feel the impact of fuck on our everyday lives. -- Official Site [More]

Starring: Steven Bochco, Pat Boone, Drew Carey, Billy Connolly

Starring: Steven Bochco, Pat Boone, Drew Carey, Billy Connolly, Chuck D, Janeane Garofalo, Ice T, Ron Jeremy, Bill Maher, Alanis Morissette, Tera Patrick, Kevin Smith, Hunter S. Thompson

Director: Steve Anderson

Director: Steve Anderson
Studio: ThinkFilm

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As Lenny Bruce famously pointed out, fuck is an important word because, "if you can't say fuck, you can't say fuck the government."

Full Review Source: ColeSmithey.com | comment Comment
04/24/09
Cole Smithey
Cole Smithey
ColeSmithey.com
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Full Review Source: Boston Phoenix | comment Comment
04/23/09
Peter Keough
Peter Keough
Boston Phoenix

As well as being humdrum, this is past its sell-by date: the film is a product of the Bush years, with the liberals making all the old complaints about Dubya’s encouragement of cultural puritanism.

Full Review Source: Sunday Times (UK) | comment Comment
02/19/09
Edward Porter
Edward Porter
Sunday Times (UK)

Smug, shallow, repetitive, unilluminating and rarely funny.

Full Review Source: Observer [UK] | comment Comment
02/19/09
Philip French
Philip French
Observer [UK]

Despite its flaws, Fuck does manage to leave you energised and determined to fight to the death to defend freedom of speech – or at least sit back and fire off a few swear words of your own in celebration. Shit, piss, fuck, etc…

Full Review Source: Little White Lies | comment Comment
02/19/09
Ed Andrews
Ed Andrews
Little White Lies

It's all reasonable but unoriginal stuff.

Full Review Source: Guardian [UK] | comment Comment
02/13/09
Peter Bradshaw
Peter Bradshaw
Guardian [UK]
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This could have been far more illuminating, challenging, or at the very least entertaining.

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02/12/09
David Parkinson
David Parkinson
Empire Magazine
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The insight-neutral scrag ends of what feels like ten decent documentaries on censorship, semantics, social policy and broadcasting coalesce in this painfully self-satisfied and poorly made ‘shock-doc’.

Full Review Source: Time Out | comment Comment
02/12/09
David Jenkins
David Jenkins
Time Out

More of a TV documentary than a movie, but there's enough good stuff here to keep you from cussing.

Full Review Source: Channel 4 Film | comment Comment
02/12/09
Richard Luck
Richard Luck
Channel 4 Film

An example of the very worst kind of documentary film-making. The picture contains no insight, no research and no etymological answers. It is simply a string of choppily edited interviews with comedians, porn actors and the morally outraged.

Full Review Source: Times [UK] | comment Comment
02/12/09
Wendy Ide
Wendy Ide
Times [UK]
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A moderately amusing documentary about the second most offensive word in the English language.

Full Review Source: Financial Times | comment Comment
02/12/09
Karl French
Karl French
Financial Times

Entertaining documentary with an admirable array of talking heads, though it doesn't dig nearly as deep as you'd expect and contains some baffling omissions.

Full Review Source: ViewLondon | comment Comment
02/12/09
Matthew Turner
Matthew Turner
ViewLondon

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02/12/09
Matthew Turner
Matthew Turner
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Full Review Source: Hollywood.com | comment Comment
11/20/08
Michael Szymanski
Michael Szymanski
Hollywood.com

Maybe f*** is a bad word because we don't know where or how it started; who knows? Maybe we're just too f***ing sensitive...

Full Review Source: Cinema Crazed | comment Comment
07/09/08
Felix Vasquez Jr.
Felix Vasquez Jr.
Cinema Crazed

This isn't really a documentary so much as a celebration -- of one word's power to twist people in knots.

Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | comment Comment
02/13/08
Rob Gonsalves
Rob Gonsalves
eFilmCritic.com

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Full Review Source: Big Picture Big Sound | comment Comment
07/14/07
Joe Lozito
Joe Lozito
Big Picture Big Sound

This film is probably not going to change anyone's view about this particular word, but it is an interesting, informative, and often entertaining take on the subject.

Full Review Source: TheMovieChicks.com | comment Comment
03/09/07
Cherryl Dawson and Leigh Ann Palone
Cherryl Dawson and Leigh Ann Palone
TheMovieChicks.com

Anderson's film is surprisingly amusing, as well as insightful, even if viewers have to sit through about 800 uses of the word in the 90-minute film.

Full Review Source: Rochester Democrat and Chronicle | comment Comment
01/05/07
Jack Garner
Jack Garner
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle

Fascinating.

Full Review Source: San Diego Metropolitan | comment Comment
12/30/06
Jean Lowerison
Jean Lowerison
San Diego Metropolitan
 
 
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