Scanialara You won't be disappointed!

Jeanskynebu the audience applauded

Afouotos Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

Hayden Kane There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

Scarecrow-88 Inside Deep Throat really left me quite surprised, I must say. It takes the startlingly successful hardcore porn film, Deep Throat, and comments on its cumulative effects upon the American way of life (what started in the lower rungs of NYC soon spread across the country to theater chains thanks to the mob!), pop culture (nowadays scantily clad men/women are everywhere; sex sells), politics (obscenity laws pushed by Nixon's administration; eventually, Deep Throat male stud Harry Reems was tried (and convicted!) in a court of law just because he starred in the movie!), sexuality (oral pleasure and "clitoral pleasure" were awakened to a larger public who perhaps never experienced sex quite like it prior to Deep Throat's success), and human rights (feminism condemned how women were exploited as sexual objects; Linda Lovelace would later claim she was abused and worked in Deep Throat against her will). The hardcore industry, as narrated by Dennis Hopper (!), is covered in depth, and the history lesson runs until today; the porn industry under the microscope is primary treated respectfully, although today's industry is held in contempt by some of the interviews (like Norman Mailer!) for its lack of artistry and gravitation towards money as the sole reason behind its engine. Even the likes of Wes Craven (obviously not proud of his association with porn), Peter Gruber, and Gore Vidal comment on the hardcore industry. We learn the tragedy that would befall Lovelace who retreated and "retired" from the industry to raise a family, joined forces with a feminist to speak against porn, and later tried to capitalize on what little fame remained as a much older woman (she tried to go straight, but because of her affiliation with Deep Throat, working in any professional capacity seemed non-existent), eventually dying in a car in accident in 2002. Harry Reems' treatment in a court of law seems positively frightening. That he almost went to jail simply by having sex on camera for a theatrical audience seems too surreal to be true…but it almost happened! There's some explicit sexual acts shown, like Lovelace's amazing ability to deep throat Harry's erect member (it is the primary reason behind the title of the film and its marketability), and scenes that depict lovemaking in hardcore, but to have the industry as its subject and completely censor it from the documentary would kind of defeat the purpose of the fight against censorship, right? Reems comes off extremely likable and his candidness about descending into drugs and alcoholism when he went to LA to make it in Hollywood is admirable. How the mob was so intrinsically involved in the spread of the film (they would go to theater chains with an offer "owners shouldn't refuse") and highway robbery from the man who directed it (Gerard Damiano; also quite open and honest about the experience; he never made a dime from his work in the film!), not to mention, how little Lovelace made from the film considering her "performance" and face ($1200! That's it!) contributed highly to its success, says a lot about how the criminal element operate as outright thieves and bullies with very little involvement on an artistic level. I think what remains so compelling is how controversial and polarizing Deep Throat was (Damiano equated it to "opening a can of worms") to the mainstream, political, and public opinion.

Michael_Elliott Inside Deep Throat (2005) *** 1/2 (out of 4) Wonderful documentary that takes a look at the making of Deep Throat and all the trouble that followed. I just watched the actual film earlier this year in order to see what all the controversy was about but the documentary did a great job showing it even if you haven't seen the actual movie. I wasn't too familiar with anything that went on so most of what was being said here was new to me and perhaps that's why it was so interesting. The fact that the government was fighting the film for being "harmful" plays out rather interesting in the final act of this film considering the effect it had on those involved with the movie.

Christopher T. Chase Paul Thomas Anderson's indie opus chronicling the porn industry from the early Seventies into the Nineties was influenced by many sources; the life story of John Holmes being among them. But for curiosity seekers and cineastes looking for a little more extensive take on the "temperature" of the times, politically, culturally and sexually, one needn't look much farther than this surprisingly entertaining doc produced by CELLULOID CLOSET makers Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato, in association with Imagine honcho Brian Grazer.An amazing collection of the surviving players embroiled in the DEEP THROAT saga have been assembled here; most importantly the film's writer/director, Gerard Damiano, the male lead, Harry Reems, and posthumously, the star of the notorious porn film herself, Linda Lovelace. Fusing a story that is shot through with a blending of urban legend, and the darker truths about both the worlds of porn and politics, INSIDE outlines the mammoth sex-quake set off by the creation, production and release of a movie that amped up the pace and focus of the Sexual Revolution, and also intensified the government's focus on issues of obscenity, freedom of speech and who decides what can and cannot be seen by the general public. One of the funniest ironies of the whole tale, is the film's sly and subtle suggestion that the hyperventilated efforts of the religious Right contributed about as much to porn's explosion into a multi-billion dollar industry as their combatants did in trying to make sure that the First Amendment wasn't trampled into oblivion.Besides Damiano, Reems and several other crew members behind the filming of THROAT, a lot of the usual (and unusual) suspects are on hand to provide their own wry and trenchant commentary on the movie and the era, including Norman Mailer, Gore Vidal, John Waters, Dick Cavett, Hugh Hefner, Al Goldstein, Camille Paglia, Susan Brownmiller, and leading porn legends Georgina Spelvin and Andrea True. Also on hand are a few of the religious-minded bluenoses who did their best to curtail DEEP THROAT'S distribution and destroy the lives of its creators, especially Reems, whose life was virtually devastated by the controversy's outcome. Especially poignant are brief but telling interviews with friends and relatives of the late Lovelace, who proclaimed more than once that she was forced into making the movie by her sexual slavemaster/Svengali of a husband, the now-deceased Chuck Trainor. By no means the complete overview of this tumultuous era of sex, drugs and rock-'n'-roll from Times Square to a dingy theater in Louisiana, INSIDE DEEP THROAT does provide a little more revealing (and definitely more titillating) peek into what it was all about than the more- slickly produced BOOGIE NIGHTS. However, prudes and pornophobes should beware: a complete examination of history's most profitable and provocative independent movie, wouldn't be complete with some explicit clips showing what made it so famous, and they are definitely in there.

tavm As Blockbuster was emerging as the nation's video store in the late '80s, they had some policies that made some video store patrons try more localized, adventurous places. One was that they didn't stock any X-(or today NC-17)rated movies. That would include such non-porn films like Last Tango in Paris, Henry and June, or this one, Inside Deep Throat. However, they do have Unrated movies meant for over 17 customers available like Dawn of the Dead, Zombie, and Kids-a drama about the sexual exploits of teenagers. To me, that seems like the most hypocritical stance a corporate chain could take concerning a movie's content and the judgment to make whether such movie should be made available to the general public. This documentary makes the point that before Deep Throat was released in the summer of '72 at a Times Square movie theatre, there were hardly any porn films that made such a fuss that the government wanted to shut down movie houses that showed it. It also looks at the lives of the three important people involved and how they were affected: director Gerard Damiano didn't make a dime because he sold his share to the mafia who controlled the financial end, male star Harry Reems was going to be jailed for 5 years before the charges were dropped, and star Linda Lovelace (actual surname Boreman), initially defending her participation in the film, then denouncing it after writing an autobiography called Ordeal, then coming back to pose in sleazy magazines because she was dead broke, eventually died that way when she was injured in a car accident in 2002. Damiano seemed to want to make the point in the film interviews that with the success of his movie, porn was entering the mainstream but emerging obscenity laws would make that an impossibility. Which probably meant that any X-rated movie would make that automatically porn no matter the content simply because of the stigma. NC-17 was supposed to change that in 1990 but there are some newspapers that won't show ads for such films or movie theatres exhibit them. So unless cuts are made in certain director's pictures in order to show in the most possible screens, the only other alternative is showing it Unrated except Major Studios won't accept that in their contracts, only independents do (this is why Miramax-a Disney subsidiary-couldn't distribute the aforementioned Kids so head Harvey Weinstein formed another distributing company-Shining Excalibur-for the sole purpose of keeping Kids from getting an NC-17 or clipped for an R). I've probably talked enough here so I'll just say that Inside Deep Throat puts in perspective what it was like in the '70s when both the sexual revolution and feminism was emerging and not on the same paths and how they affected society to this day. Whether what the results that became were good or bad depends, as always, on your point of view.