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You Can See Everything is already setting the box office alight Stateside, raking in a whopping $15,000,000 during its debut.
This is all despite a very limited run at 855 screens across the US and Canada, with the documentary now becoming the biggest opening for a film on fewer than 1,000 screens since 2006’s Borat.
The film’s distributor, A24, has called it ‘one of the largest limited-release openings of the 21st century.’
The utterly surreal documentary, following Elizabeth Holmes in the 34 days building up to her imprisonment, broke the internet with its bone-chilling first trailer released in September.
But why does the top-secret Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim documentary have everyone talking?
Who is Elizabeth Holmes?
Elizabeth Anne Holmes, who is now 42, is a former American businesswoman who founded Theranos in 2003.
After studying chemical engineering at Stanford, she worked as a student researcher and laboratory assistant in the School of Engineering, later going on to work at the Genome Institute of Singapore.
The privately held company was hailed as a breakthrough in health tech, claiming to revolutionise blood testing, making it fast, cheap, and accessible without traditional needles and vials.
Theranos also promised that its Edison test could detect conditions such as cancer and diabetes quickly without the hassle of needles.
At the peak of its success in 2013 and 2014, the company was valued at $9,000,000,000 and raised over $700,000,000 from investors.
Elizabeth was ultimately named the world’s youngest self-made female billionaire by Forbes magazine thanks to the success of her company.
Why did she go to prison?
Things came crashing down spectacularly for the company after Holmes was exposed and the technology she backed didn’t work, leaving it to collapse entirely.
In 2018, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) charged Theranos, Holmes, and former chief operating officer (COO) Ramesh ‘Sunny’ Balwani, who was Holmes’ then boyfriend, with raising $700,000,000 from investors through a fraud involving false or exaggerated claims about the accuracy of the company’s technology.
She was later convicted by a jury in California on four counts of fraud.
The jury found her not guilty on four other charges and failed to reach a verdict on three more. Holmes, who had pleaded not guilty to all charges, sought a new trial but those requests were denied.
In November 2022, she was sentenced to 11 years and three months in prison and is scheduled to be released from federal custody on February 22 2030.
Why did she agree to the Nathan Fiedler documentary?
Filmed in the days leading up to her prison sentence, Holmes tells Canadian filmmaker Fielder, 43, that she ‘did nothing wrong’, saying she ‘didn’t understand’ why she was being sent to jail.
Probed about how she ended up facing over a decade in prison, she added: ‘I wish I knew. I don’t know. I don’t feel like I understand that.’
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Interviewing Holmes after revealing he has been invited to stay with her and her family while making the film, Fielder asked whether she had concerns about him being around 24/7 or if he found something that ‘makes her look bad’.
She replied: ‘I don’t think so.’
Explaining her decision to be followed by cameras, Holmes is heard saying in a voice-over: ‘I think this is the moment in time to capture this story before I’m gone.’
When is You Can See Everything out in the UK?
You Can See Everything has not opened at the international box office yet, but is coming out in the UK on November 20, 2026.