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06/24/06
Inside Deep Throat (2005)
82 %
Reviews Counted: 116 Fresh: 95 Rotten:21 Average Rating: 6.9/10
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A documentary on the film that brought smut mainstream, Inside Deep Throat is gaining praise as an entertaining look at a pop culture milestone. However, some critics say the film could have gone a little deeper into the people involved.
Runtime: 1 hr 32 mins
Synopsis: After focusing on the decadent club scene of the 1980s with their film PARTY MONSTER, filmmakers Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato travel further back in time for this documentary on the cultural impact of the '72 movie DEEP THROAT. When director Gerard Damiano unleashed the film--a witty, yet... [More]
Genre: Education/General Interest
Starring: Gerard Damiano, Harry Reems, Linda Lovelace, John Waters, Hugh Hefner
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Top Critic
A sharp documentary that has comedy, tragedy and, yes, a glimpse of Linda Lovelace's party trick.
01/07/06
Top Critic
An entertaining moustaches-and-all documentary that tells an engaging story and draws some thought-provoking parallels.
06/11/05
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06/10/05
Interviews with the surviving players, including porn stud Harry Reams ... make for entertaining viewing.
05/25/05
Top Critic
Bailey and Barbato assemble their material with a sharp eye for detail and bracingly hilarious wit.
04/06/05
A polemic on America, and its incapability to be accepting of sexuality by demonizing and stigmatizing the act...
02/03/08
Move over, Alfred Kinsey. Apparently the unusually avid sex researcher's knack for shaking up the gatekeepers of traditional moral values, may have been a mere dress rehearsal for Deep Throat a few decades later.
06/02/07
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01/17/06
Top Critic
Well-crafted and, in places, highly informative, but with the exception of some of the original film’s hardcore sex scenes and the aforementioned Mob angle, there's little we haven't been exposed to before (no pun intended).
12/06/05
At once amusingly entertaining and yet searingly revealing, Inside Deep Throat is documentary gold
11/03/05
Bailey and Barbato can only scratch the Boogie Nights-influenced surface, but they cover the ABCs of pornography with undeniable zip.
09/26/05
Clunky and forgettable as a documentary, Inside Deep Throat succeeds entirely thanks to its subject matter
09/20/05
...with its 1970s-style groovy graphics and tittering adolescent's view of sexuality, [it] has a willfully disreputable tone, but it provides surprising insight.
08/04/05
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Anna Faris to Star in Linda Lovelace Deep Throat Biopic
posted by Jeff Giles September 20, 2007
After a string of comedic roles in films such as Just Friends and the Scary Movie series, Anna Faris is ready to get deep....
posted by Jeff Giles September 20, 2007
After a string of comedic roles in films such as Just Friends and the Scary Movie series, Anna Faris is ready to get deep....
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