'You Can See Everything' Follows Elizabeth Holmes's Final Month Before Prison
A three-hour documentary about Elizabeth Holmes's last month of freedom is in cinemas, and it is the work of two directors who had not planned to put themselves on screen. A24's You Can See Everything, directed by Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim, covers the time Holmes spent with her husband, Billy Evans, and their children before she began an 11-plus-year prison sentence for fraud, The Hollywood Reporter reports.
The film's path to audiences has been unusually public. It had a secret screening at the Telluride Film Festival over Labor Day weekend, and it was then shown at the 64th New York Film Festival. The directors also took part in a public question-and-answer session at the SCAD Savannah Film Festival, held straight after a screening.
The cast list is a talking point. Amanda Seyfried appears in the film to help complete it and to reenact key scenes and conversations. Seyfried won an Emmy for playing Holmes in Hulu's The Dropout. Fielder was not originally planned to appear on camera, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
The making of the film is also drawing attention. According to Oppenheim, Fielder negotiated a "kill switch" on the project, a contract term that gives a person the right to halt a production. Variety carried the remark. Variety also reported that the film includes a shower scene featuring Evans.
Release began in October. Variety described the film's box-office start as huge. Studio figures for the opening weekend are the measure to watch, as they come out in the days after a release.
Awards talk has started early. The Hollywood Reporter's Feinberg Forecast lists Fielder and Oppenheim among possible contenders in the 2027 Oscar race. The Directors Guild of America has ruled the film ineligible for its Feature Prize, so it will compete only in the guild's documentary category, Variety reported.
For many viewers, the appeal is the odd mix of documentary and reenactment. The film asks its audience to sit with a familiar news story from an unusually close angle, and the length alone sets it apart from most releases this year.
