‘You Can See Everything’: Holmes’ 34 shocking days revealed
Nathan Fielder moved in with Elizabeth Holmes for the documentary “You Can See Everything,” spending the 34 days before the convicted Theranos founder reported to federal prison in 2023 inside her family’s home. The A24 film, which Fielder co-directed with Lance Oppenheim, opens in theaters Oct. 16 after festival screenings in Telluride, Colorado, and New York.
“I’m struggling to this day to understand exactly what I experienced,” Fielder said at a Q&A after the film’s surprise Telluride Film Festival screening on Sept. 6, according to a social media post by Rebecca Keegan that was included in a roundup of reactions by The Hollywood Reporter.
How ‘You Can See Everything’ got inside Holmes’ home
A24’s logline says Holmes invited “a skeptical film crew to document her every move” 34 days before she went to prison. According to Variety’s Telluride review, the crew set up at the beachside Del Mar, California, home Holmes shared with her partner, hotel heir Billy Evans, and their two young children.
Fielder stayed with the family during that stretch, TheWrap reported, interviewing Holmes and watching how she and Evans handled her final weeks of freedom. The logline says what started as “an intimate portrait of an enigmatic felon” turned into “a mind-bending three-year journey into the abyss.”
The film runs 174 minutes, according to Variety.
Holmes insists she did nothing wrong
Holmes tells Fielder she has never told a lie in her life, Variety critic Owen Gleiberman wrote. He described her manner as a mix of “sincerity” and “passive-aggressive unbroken-eye-contact creepiness,” and argued the film shows “the epic nature of her willingness to lie to herself.”
The official trailer, released Sept. 23, centers on the same tension. “Why would I deceive you? There’s no reason for me to deceive you,” Holmes tells Fielder in the clip, as quoted by Variety.
Gleiberman wrote that Fielder, known for his deadpan interviewing style, isn’t trying to reopen the question of Holmes’ guilt. Instead, the critic said, the comedian wants to understand what drives someone like her.
Who made ‘You Can See Everything’
Fielder broke through with Comedy Central’s “Nathan for You” and later made HBO’s docu-comedy series “The Rehearsal.” He also co-created and starred in “The Curse,” the Showtime and Paramount+ series with Emma Stone.
Oppenheim is best known for documentaries such as “Some Kind of Heaven” (2020), “Spermworld” (2024) and the HBO docuseries “Ren Faire” (2024), The Hollywood Reporter noted. His first narrative feature, “Primetime,” starring Robert Pattinson, premiered at the Venice Film Festival this fall.
Why the Theranos case still matters
Holmes founded Theranos in 2003 and claimed its device could run a wide range of blood tests from a few drops of blood. The company reached a $9 billion valuation before investigative reporting in 2015 exposed problems with its technology.
A federal jury convicted Holmes in January 2022 of defrauding investors. She was sentenced to 11 years and 3 months and reported to the Federal Prison Camp in Bryan, Texas, on May 30, 2023. Theranos was also the subject of Hulu’s 2022 miniseries “The Dropout,” starring Amanda Seyfried, which Fielder and Holmes watch together in the film, according to Variety.
Release date and early reactions
“You Can See Everything” opens in theaters Oct. 16, TheWrap and Variety reported. Telluride viewers who posted after the Sept. 6 screening called it “shocking,” “brilliant” and “insane,” The Hollywood Reporter noted, and several urged audiences to know as little as possible before watching.
The film also played the New York Film Festival on Sept. 30. Read our coverage of the Elizabeth Holmes documentary’s NYFF screening, and find more in our movies and TV and streaming sections.
Reporting from Variety, The Hollywood Reporter and TheWrap contributed to this story.
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