Elizabeth Holmes and her partner, Billy Evans, invited documentarians Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim into their small Del Mar, California, rental home for 34 days leading up to Holmes’ surrender to prison in May 2023.
Box Office Momentum and Rotten Tomatoes Scores
By its third weekend, domestic ticket sales reached $64.7 million. The film has become a major cultural event, with its first two weeks of box office earnings exceeding $45 million. It stands as the first non-concert documentary to finish a weekend at No. 1 since Fahrenheit 9/11 in June 2004, according to trade coverage of the box office performance.
Critical reception matches the commercial success, holding a high positive rating on Rotten Tomatoes alongside five Critics Choice Documentary Awards nominations, including Best Cinematography. Some reports also note a 98 percent positive rating on the platform. With its current trajectory, the film’s ability to reach a $100 million finish—a milestone reached by only ten documentaries—is now a live question.
The production style breaks away from traditional documentary norms. The setup utilized two zooms—specifically 25-250mm zooms—along with cameras and operators. The production operated without artificial lighting within a 4:3 frame.
Behind the Scenes in Del Mar
Much of the tense psychological atmosphere stems from the intimate proximity between the filmmakers and their subjects. The film documents the final weeks of Holmes’ freedom, captured just 34 days before she was to report to prison. Throughout the first half, the film is described as grim and overcast, featuring extended conversations in the beach house where the couple lived.
Throughout the first half of the film, Fielder confronts Holmes about her legal culpability. Holmes maintains her innocence, asserting that she did not know she was lying. In one exchange, Fielder shows the couple the Abbott and Costello comedy sketch Who’s on First?
to probe her communication difficulties. Holmes appears not to understand the humor or how it relates to her own issues, and the couple claims they had never seen the sketch before.
YOU CAN SEE EVERYTHING (2026), Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim’s documentary about Elizabeth Holmes, opens with $15M domestically from just 855 theaters. The nearly 3-hour film more than doubled expectations, with over 2,000 sold-out screenings. pic.twitter.com/KP8Ytz0mNc
Nobody opens their home to Nathan Fielder expecting to come out looking perfect. Whatever anyone’s opinion of Billy may be, I think we can all agree the man would walk to the ends of the earth for Elizabeth and his children.
Production source, via Page Six
The Second Half Featuring Amanda Seyfried
Actress Amanda Seyfried—who portrayed Holmes in the 2022 Hulu series The Dropout
—joins Fielder on screen. Seyfried appears to help reconstruct exchanges, working through wording aloud with Fielder to help him remember exactly what Holmes had said during their visits.
Former Theranos employees have offered mixed reactions after viewing the project. Whistleblower Tyler Schultz spoke out shortly after the documentary’s release. Former employee O’Neill expressed satisfaction that the world would finally experience Holmes’ ability to persuade and connect, stating, I’m excited that the world is going to experience Elizabeth in the way that I did.
He also noted that people now understand how she was able to work, adding, No one’s asking me any more how I could possibly work for someone like that; people now understand it.
Other former staffers, such as Clegg, offered a more critical view. Clegg suggested the film portrays Holmes as being kind of on the spectrum, a person who doesn’t understand regular people,
as a method to gain sympathy and suggest she did not realize her actions were wrong.
Clegg described this perspective as crazy,
maintaining that the person he knew was smart, capable and decisive.
Clegg also noted that hearing Holmes claim she did not know she was lying made him want to jump out of my seat in the cinema.
