Product Description

NC-17 version of the documentary produced by Ron Howard and Brian Grazer.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #34755 in DVD
• Brand: NBC Universal
• Published on: 2005-09-01
• Released on: 2005-09-20
• Rating: NC-17
• Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: French, Spanish
• Dimensions: .25 pounds
• Running time: 92 minutes

Amazon.com
While Boogie Nights showed pornography's transition from sleazy cinemas to home-video dominance, Inside Deep Throat looks back to the film that introduced porn to a curious mainstream public. Released in 1972 and starring 23-year-old Linda Lovelace as sexpot whose oral sex skills (performed on well-endowed costar Harry Reems) gave the film its title (and, subsequently, the nickname of Watergate's secret informant), Deep Throat set a cultural milestone as a source of controversy, outrageous profit (mostly for its Colombo mob family financiers), and irrevocable social change. With equal parts nostalgia and historical hindsight, this briskly-paced documentary places Deep Throat in pivotal context, when Vietnam was an acknowledged disaster and American innocence was peeling away one layer at a time. Produced by Hollywood honcho Brian Grazer and catering to viewers who were too young to witness Deep Throat's impact firsthand, the film includes the legendary fellatio scene that made Lovelace an overnight sensation (hence the NC-17 rating), but it's the interviews with pop-culture VIP's like Norman Mailer, Dick Cavett, Hugh Hefner and (most amusingly) Helen Gurley Brown that add necessary perspective to what is, for better and worse, an engaging but somewhat shallow examination of a culture war that never really ended. --Jeff Shannon

From The New Yorker
An excitable documentary, directed by Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato, about the creation of "Deep Throat." We follow that work through the stages of its writing and casting, both of which took hours to complete, and so to the more elaborate matter of its infamy. The star, Linda Lovelace, was no longer alive to be interviewed for the new film, but we hear from the director, a former hairdresser named Gerard Damiano, plus aging members of his crew, whose rants and ravings are twice as entertaining as anything in "Deep Throat" itself. Other contributors include such sexual magi as Dr. Ruth Westheimer, Camille Paglia, Erica Jong, and Helen Gurley Brown, all of whom lend weight and thrust to the documentary's contention that the erotic progress of America took a sharp upward turn in 1972. Certainly the legal decision to shut down the original movie and to prosecute its hapless leading man, Harry Reems, was a foolishly obvious guarantee of its semi-mythical status; at no point, however, do Bailey and Barbato make even the barest attempt to undercut that myth, and their efforts rise, with climactic absurdity, to a defense of free expression so rousing that they might as well be discussing the "Madame Bovary" trial. This is an HBO production, so expect a glossy finish and a hopped-up editing style very different from the livid grunginess in which Ms. Lovelace and her friends were bathed. -Anthony Lane
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