A string of commercial failures drove Soderbergh into what he recently referred to as "the Schizopolis grace period". It was one part spirit journey and one part a plunge into the mind of Spalding Gray.

Soderbergh would then jump into the bigger-budget movies, with the one-two punch of an Elmore Leonard adaptation and one of the best revenge pictures I've ever seen.

Spalding Gray in Gray's Anatomy