Inside Deep Throat

Theatrical Release Date: 2005 02 11 (USA - Limited)

UPC: 025192769122

Studio: Universal Studios

MPAA Rating: NC17   Contains:[Nudity, Strong Sexual Content, Not For Children, Adult Humor, Profanity]

Summary: Directors Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato follow up Party Monster by returning to the documentary form of their most popular film The Eyes of Tammy Faye. Rather than examining evangelists-cum-gay icons, this time the duo takes aim at the cultural phenomenon that is and was Deep Throat, the hardcore porn film that cost 25,000 dollars to make and grossed over 600-million-dollars world-wide, making it the most successful independent film of all time. The impact of the film on the public's perception of pornography is discussed, as is the unlikely relationship the film had to the Watergate scandal. Actress Linda Lovelace who later denounced Deep Throat, claiming she'd been forced to make it at gunpoint, appears in interviews that were shot just before her fatal 2002 car accident. ~ Matthew Tobey, Rovi

Category: Film, TV & Radio

Features: The last word for now
Bill Maher, Erica Long, Hugh Hefner, Wes Craven, and others reveal america's prevailing attitudes about sex.
The binghampton trial: cliterally speaking - meet the first town to put Deep Throat on trial.
Quincy house: poison ivy league - two harvard students are arrested for screening deep throat.
Commentary track
With directors randy barbato and fenton bailey.

Inside Deep Throat

Format: DVD

Release Date: 09/20/2005

Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1 Theatre Wide-Screen

Audio: DD5.1 Dolby Digital 5.1

Runtime: 90 Minutes

Sides: 1

Number of Discs: 1

Language(s) English

Subtitles: English,Spanish,French

Region: USA & territories, Canada

Chapters: Disc #1 -- Inside Deep Throat
1. Por-No! (Main Titles) [2:54]
2. Badge of a New Era [4:32]
3. A Family Man [6:22]
4. Nothing to Be Ashamed Of [2:12]
5. The Girl Next Door [4:04]
6. An Unknown Lead [5:55]
7. The Absolute Pleasure [3:45]
8. Police Move In [6:10]
9. Porn is Chic [4:37]
10. Popular & Profitable [3:37]
11. Organized Crime [5:58]
12. A Run for Their Money [4:08]
13. Under Surveillance [2:53]
14. Charged with Conspiracy [6:05]
15. Guilty Verdict [3:28]
16. Culture Turn [1:09]
17. Media Commodity [6:09]
18. From Art to Money [4:54]
19. Today... [3:18]
20. Epilogue/End Titles [:54]

Josh Ralske

Fast-paced and too slick by half, Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato's Inside Deep Throat is a fun and fascinating primer on the unlikely impact of the cheaply (and mostly ineptly) made 1972 porn flick. It didn't just change the lives of its participants forever (and, clearly, in the case of stars Linda Lovelace and Harry Reems, for the worse); it had a profound effect on American politics and culture. The film moves quickly, skimming the surface in many instances. It glosses over many of Lovelace's charges about how she was treated during filming and later, when she became notorious. It never delves into affable director Gerard Damiano's connections to his reputedly mob-backed investors. But there's certainly a lot of fascinating information disseminated through the film, and the filmmakers make it clear that the huge political battle that ensued over the film was a precursor to contemporary culture wars. Larry Flynt and Alan Dershowitz are among the documentary's entertaining talking heads, evoking Milos Forman's equally snarky and engaging The People vs. Larry Flynt. Although Deep Throat was rightly seen as a sexist fantasy by feminist critics, Bailey and Barbato make it clear that its groundbreaking engagement with the very notion of female pleasure, despite the immature approach, was an essential part of what made the film such a target for censors like Tennessee prosecutor Larry Parrish (who nearly sent Reems to jail for his performance) and the since-disgraced Charles Keating. There's even a startling clip of Reems debating Roy Cohn, perhaps the ultimate sexual hypocrite, about his case. Inside Deep Throat, with its 1970s-style groovy graphics and tittering adolescent's view of sexuality, has a willfully disreputable tone, but it provides surprising insight into the evolution of American culture. ~ Josh Ralske, Rovi

Cast and Crew: Xaviera Hollander  Actor 
Peter Bart  Actor 
Annie Sprinkle  Actor 
Ralph Blumenthal  Actor 
William Purcell  Actor 
Dick Cavett  Actor 
Andrea True  Actor 
Gore Vidal  Actor 
Helen Gurley Brown  Actor 
Lindsay Marchiano  Actor 
Linda Lovelace  Actor 
Wes Craven  Actor 
Al Goldstein  Actor 
Lenny Camp  Actor 
Arthur Sommer  Actor 
Harry Reems  Actor 
Alan Dershowitz  Actor 
Bruce Kramer  Actor 
Ron Wertheim  Actor 
Pat Carroll  Actor 
Georgina Spelvin  Actor 
Norman Mailer  Actor 
Carl Bernstein  Actor 
Peter Manouse  Actor 
Linda Williams  Actor 
Charles Keating  Actor 
Tony Bill  Actor 
John Waters  Actor 
Barbara Boreman  Actor 
Ray Shipley  Actor 
Hugh Hefner  Actor 
Dr. Ruth Westheimer  Actor 
Camille Paglia  Actor 
Susan Brownmiller  Actor 
Larry Parrish  Actor 
Bill Maher  Actor 
Gerard Damiano  Actor 
Erica Jong  Actor 
Herb Kassner  Actor 
Terry Sommer  Actor 
Brian Grazer  Producer 
Fenton Bailey  Director 
Fenton Bailey  Producer 
Fenton Bailey  Screenwriter 
Randy Barbato  Director 
Randy Barbato  Producer 
Randy Barbato  Screenwriter 
Kim Roth  Executive Producer 
David Benjamin Steinberg  Composer (Music Score) 
Dennis Hopper  Actor 

Country: USA