GamerTab That was an excellent one.

Kaydan Christian A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

Mandeep Tyson The acting in this movie is really good.

Billy Ollie Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

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.

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.

movieman_kev More than just a documentary on the triple X porn classic,"Deep Throat". This film is about the time of it's release, political motivations played an extremely huge hand in how well the porn movie did. And because it was released at just the right moment in history is one of the only reasons it's as highly regarded and made an unbelievable profit. There are a great many better porn films (New Wave hookers, Debbie does Dallas, Devil in miss jones 3, etc...) But I digress, the documentary is pretty interesting, if the subject matter does stretch a bit thin. When the people who were directly involved with the film are being interviewed the film's fascinating. When those on screen have nothing at all to do with anything (Wes Craven, John Waters, Bill Maher, and so on) not so much. The film as a whole is flaccid and nothing i would watch again. And this from a guy who isn't above pornography in the least. It still remains good in short spurtsMy Grade: C+DVD Extras: Audio commentary with directors Randy Barbato & Fenton Bailey; collection of audio outtakes from the film; 14 Deleted scenes (some exclusive to the NC-17 rated version); and Theatrical trailer

vocal_warchild i am an unashamed porn fan, not in the sense that i sit around all the time watching th stuff, but in the sense that i find the people involved in the making and distribution of the stuff to be very interesting, if not somewhat shady and bizarre people but none the less they have a story to share that not many people can lay claim to and so i like to give any material broaching the subject, particularly in its formative years, a listen.so i haven't seen deep throat, and i don't really want to, if I'm going to watch people engaging in sexual acts i will buy something a little more intense and modern without all the premise of having a plot for arts sake. but this documentary is not about the film persae, it is about the people involved with it and how it affected their lives.we see and hear from a lot of people who's lives have been both positively and negatively affected by this film over the years and it gives the viewer an insight into what really makes these people get involved in the business to begin with, and surprisingly enough its not just the money as there wasn't much money in it for the actors as such back in the 70s.so i suggest that anybody that has an interest in rights and freedoms should really watch this as it gives a deeper appreciation of these simple gifts that we have to live by today and are so readily taken for granted.if you like this kinda stuff also check out a film called Wadd which is about the life and death of john Holmes and also read How to make love like a porn star, the autobiography of Jenna Jameson.