You Can See Everything: Full Trailer for Elizabeth Holmes Doc Drops

A24 released the full trailer Wednesday for You Can See Everything, the documentary about Elizabeth Holmes co-directed by Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim. The 174-minute film opens in theaters Oct. 16, following a surprise premiere earlier this month at the Telluride Film Festival.

The project began in the spring of 2023, when Holmes, 34 days from reporting to federal prison, invited a skeptical film crew to document her life. Fielder moved in with Holmes and her family for a month before she reported, and what started as an intimate portrait turned into a three-year production. The official synopsis from A24 describes it as a mind-bending three-year journey into the abyss.

What the trailer shows

The two-minute trailer opens on a close-up exchange between Fielder and Holmes. He asks whether she really feels she did nothing wrong, and she answers that she did not. Asked how she ended up facing a long prison sentence, she says she wishes she knew and does not feel she understands it herself.

The footage moves between the ordinary and the odd. Holmes washes dishes in a kitchen with her baby nearby. She lies on the couple's bed while her husband, Billy Evans, rubs her leg. In another scene, Fielder questions Evans in a hushed kitchen conversation about whether he ever worried Holmes was scamming him. Evans says she had nothing to gain from him, and when Fielder brings up the Evans family wealth, Evans replies that there are different levels of wealth.

Fielder also asks Evans whether he worried Holmes was scamming him when they met in 2017, two years after the accusations against Theranos became public, Gizmodo notes.

Holmes cries at one point and tells Fielder it took her a long time to be comfortable letting someone see her cry. Parts of the film covering her time in prison were reenacted with an actress, since the crew could not shoot inside.

A three-year production that started with 34 days

Fielder and Oppenheim shot the documentary largely in secret. You Can See Everything was unveiled at a surprise screening at the 53rd Telluride Film Festival on Sept. 6, and the early reviews were warm. The Credits called the filmmakers' access an astonishing coup and noted that Holmes seems to believe her own account, which gives the footage its unsettling charge.

The first teaser, released earlier this month, showed a tense stare-down between Fielder and an unblinking Holmes, and it made waves online, per Gizmodo. The trailer's strangest beats come from Fielder's deadpan presence in Holmes' house. He lingers in doorways, watches her do chores, and asks his questions a beat too late. Eerie music and shots of waves on a California beach run between the conversations, the New York Post reports.

Holmes also reassures Fielder about her intentions during the trailer, saying she has nothing to deceive him on, according to Where Is The Buzz. Ticket presales are already live for select theaters through the film's official site, with nationwide sales opening Oct. 1.

The Holmes story, retold once more

Theranos claimed its machines could run a wide range of blood tests from a few drops of blood. The technology did not work. Holmes was convicted on fraud charges tied to the company and reported to a federal prison in Bryan, Texas, in May 2023 to begin an 11-year sentence. The U.S. Bureau of Prisons later estimated she could be out as soon as 2032.

The story has been told before. The official synopsis says that 34 days before she's sent to prison, Holmes invites a skeptical film crew to document her every move, and the portrait becomes a three-year journey into the abyss. John Carreyrou's book Bad Blood documented the collapse. Alex Gibney's 2019 film The Inventor took it to HBO. Hulu's The Dropout earned Amanda Seyfried an Emmy for playing Holmes. Gizmodo reports Holmes has asked President Trump to commute her sentence.

A24's bet is that Fielder and Oppenheim found an angle the earlier versions missed: a comedian embedding with a convicted fraudster in the final weeks before prison. The film opens in theaters Oct. 16.