Best movie of this year hands down!

Sorry, this movie sucks

Simply Perfect

The acting in this movie is really good.

Entertaining if not super deep exploration of the 70s social and sexual phenomenon that was 'Deep Throat' -- the first hard core porn film to cross-over from the men in raincoats crowd, to huge success and long lines full of (then) 'hip' men and women, movie stars and even film critics.Frequently funny, occasionally sad and pathetic, sometimes infuriating (as in the aggressive criminal prosecution of poor Harry Reems simply for acting in the film).I don't know that there are any really deep insights here, and the film skirts a lot of more interesting elements it could have explored (e.g. the mob's involvement with porn at the time) but it's fun and fast moving.BTW - for those of you looking for a porn film turn on, move along there's nothing to see here. Yes, there are a few seconds of Ms. Lovelace performing the title feat, but the film really is a documentary, not porn masquerading as one. Interesting yes, hot, no.

Even if you've never actually seen the movie in question, you've heard of "Deep Throat". And the beauty of "Inside Deep Throat" is that the movie's place in American history is a fascinating story. For one, it's the most profitable movie ever made (it cost $250,000 and made 600 million), sparked national outrage and brought smut to the fore, was at one point banned in 23 states, and is probably the most iconic porn film in existence. And there are some riveting ins and outs to this tale; the mob ties, costar Harry Reems' exoneration due to Nixon's resignation, and the fact that the government led a moral crusade against this movie drove up interest to maddening heights. And what's hilarious is the prosecution's unbelievable ignorance during the trial. The documentary moves at a fast clip, with Dennis Hopper's assured narration. The interviews are insightful, archival footage a nice time capsule trip; it's well-produced, informative and surprisingly involving ... even if you're not a porn fan. 7/10

This was a fascinating documentary about the movie Deep Throat, which was made for $25,000 and grossed over $300 million. While it does present a clip or two from the movie, it is mainly focused on the impact the film had on America, the people involved, and the film industry.I have not seen the original movie. I was in Vietnam when it came out, and by the time I got my first VCR 10 years later, there were many more interesting films such as Debbie Does Dallas, that I never went back to view the pioneers like Deep Throat or The Devil in Miss Jones.But, it is not the movie that is important, but what it did to open up discussion of sexuality in America. There was even a merger of sorts between the new independent filmmakers" in the porn industry and Hollywood over the trial of Harry Reems, the male lead in the film. I would think that all the publicity and trials over this film had to contribute to Hollywood loosening up a bit in films.The people involved in the film did not fare so well. Reems became a drunk and drug user, Linda Lovelace died penniless, and the principles in making and showing the film seemed to be running away from organized crime, who provided most of the original $25,000.This was an interesting look at the industry and movies and changing mores in America. Yes, it does show the deep throat, which may turn some off, but the rest of the skin is pretty tame. It is the discussion that is interesting. And, you gets to see scads of Hollywood people in the discussion.

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.