Elizabeth Holmes and comedian Nathan Fielder invited a film crew into their San Diego beach house 34 days before her prison sentence for fraud began.
Documentary Opens in Cinemas
The resulting documentary, directed by Fielder and Lance Oppenheim, opened in cinemas. Released under the title “You Can See Everything,” the A24 film captures the former Theranos CEO alongside her partner, Billy Evans, as they attempt to control their public image on the eve of her incarceration.
Holmes was convicted in 2022 of criminal wire fraud for misleading investors about the capabilities of the company’s blood-testing technology, as reported by the U.S. Department of Justice. She is serving an 11-year prison sentence. Less than a decade ago, she appeared on the cover of Forbes magazine as the world’s youngest self-made female billionaire at age 30, boasting a $4.5 billion fortune before her company collapsed.
Here is official trailer, You Can See Everything pic.twitter.com/G6jqc7vGzQ
Before founding Theranos at the age of 19 after dropping out of Stanford University, Holmes built an enterprise on blood-testing machinery that never worked, causing shareholders to lose millions of dollars and endangering the health of patients given false results.
Alex Gibney previously examined her rise and fall in his 2019 documentary feature “The Inventor,” while Hulu explored her trajectory in the 2022 dramatic series “The Dropout,” starring Amanda Seyfried. In the wake of the new film, related media has experienced a major resurgence, including a more than 600% increase in streams for “The Dropout” podcast.
Alex Gibney said he felt surprise at the sustained public interest while noting that the subject now possesses zero power compared to her empire-building days.
“You Can See Everything,” said Francis, a Yale film exhibition coordinator, describing the emergent nonfiction practice pioneered by Fielder in his HBO series “The Rehearsal.” Francis previously authored the book “Curating Deviance: Programming the Queer Film Canon,” published by Duke University Press in 2026, which examined queer and deviant art house film curation between 1968 and 1989.
Filmmakers Move Into Beach House
The film is structured into distinct chapters that move from observational vérité to dramatic reconstruction, according to NME. In the first segment, Fielder observes Holmes and Evans at their rented home.
The surprise announcement trailer for the A24 film dropped merely weeks before its release, unleashing a viral wave that parodied Holmes’s glassy eyes and rigid, animatronic demeanor. The project itself originated when Holmes and Evans approached A24 to document the days leading up to her imprisonment, hoping the project would clear her name and cleanse her public image.
Instead, Fielder scrutinized them, joining Fielder’s collaborator Lance Oppenheim in moving into the beach house alongside the family 34 days before her prison term. Within the home, Billy Evans can be seen mainlining microbiology lectures at 2x speed between calls to prospective investors.
The observational documentary has already solicited box office dollars more familiar to midbudget thrillers, becoming the non-fiction world’s buzziest pop-cultural phenomenon since a posthumous Michael Jackson rehearsal documentary in 2009.
When Holmes reports to federal prison, the filmmakers lose direct access to their primary subject. Fielder then turns his focus to Evans, whose close-ups display rising agitation as the production slips out of his control, according to The Sydney Morning Herald.
Enlisting Amanda Seyfried Behind Bars
Unable to film inside the prison, Fielder takes an unexpected metatextual turn by casting actor Amanda Seyfried to reenact his encounters with Holmes behind bars, as noted by The New York Times. Seyfried previously won an Emmy for her portrayal of Holmes in Hulu’s 2022 limited series “The Dropout.”
Both Holmes and Seyfried share a documented aversion to watching “The Dropout,” according to The New York Times. In the final stretch of the documentary, Fielder and Seyfried operate as an investigative duo, pondering Holmes’s culpability while reviewing the same testimonies.
“You Can See Everything” is showing in general release in cinemas, with upcoming theatrical rollouts scheduled in international markets, including November 19 for general release in Australia, per News, and November 20 in UK cinemas, according to NME.
Keep reading