For passion, betrayal and murder... there's still no place like home.
1989's Sex, Lies, and Videotape marked director and producer Steven Soderbergh's first full length feature as a director. Six year later, Soderbergh reteamed with actor Peter Gallagher in the 1995 crime thriller The Underneath.
In The Underneath, Gallagher plays Michael, a recovering gambling addict, who returns home to reconcile with his family and friends. It doesn't take long however, for Michael to find both trouble and temptation when he's caught between his feeling for his ex-wife, and her dangerous hoodlum boyfriend.
Gallagher is great as Michael, and is surrounded by a stellar supporting cast. I also loved the dark tone Soderbergh sets from the get go. Like so many of Soderbergh's films however, I found the editing and quick cuts a little confusing, and that dark look I initially liked, got a bit much as the film went on. That said, I did really enjoy the film, and was a nice contrast after just watching Gallagher in Summer Lovers.
Gallagher's nude scene occurs at the beginning of the movie, just after his character Michael returns home. Although it's daytime, it's darkly lit, but not too dark, so that we can't enjoy Gallagher's perfectly shaped, and slightly furry backside. One of the things that makes the scene so hot, aside from Gallagher's glutes, is that his brother Dave, (Adam Trese) silently watches his brother get dressed and after he's gotten a long look, comments that he has a 'cute butt.'
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