The Film: A tired, fractured remake of Robert Siodmak's Criss Cross. It was Soderbergh's third strike, signalling the onset of his premature mid-career crisis.

Starring sex, lies' Peter Gallagher, The Underneath is a small town noir about betrayal and heartache. It falls flat, but interestingly contains hints of the cold lens work and woozy plotting that would characterise his later work.

Soderbergh Speaks: “I had a conflict with the Writers' Guild, following a ruling they passed on the script. I couldn't object anymore so in order to voice my dissatisfaction, I signed using a pseudonym using the name of one of one of the characters in Brazil. That seemed an appropriate response to the bureaucracy.”

“It's the coldest of all the films I've made. There's something somnambulant about it. I was sleepwalking in my life and my work, and it shows.”