Lovelace brings the audience to a happy climax only to make us choke on the laughter.
People yelled at the screen during the trailers and a guy was snoring loudly in the row behind me.
Some things dont change in Times Square.
I only sawDeep Throatonce, when I was a teenager working construction.
The super projected it against the wall of the laborers shanty.
Doing it beats watching it and having it done unto you is whatDeep Throatwas all about.
Deep Throatwas a phenomenon.
It made $600 million and Linda Lovelace made about $1,200.Deep Throatwent beyond porn, it became culture.
Bob Hope and Johnny Carson joked about it.
It gave Mark Felt a code name for Woodward and Bernstein.
Called the Gone With the Windof Porn,Deep Throatwas more like theJawsof porn.
It opened wide, to paraphrase David Crow, and swallowed movie audiences whole.
It was the second and final porn crossover hit.
George Hamilton and Jackie O lined up to see it.
Dick Cavett interviewed the cast.
It was an important piece of film.
It was a blow across the bow of the First Amendment in the middle of the sexual revolution.
And no one knew the abuse Lovelace went through.
The credits roll over a four-on-the-floor disco beat with synthetic strings.
Directors Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman filmed it in seventies faux-grain.
I love grainy movies, they have character.
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Linda Boreman is shown to be more or less innocent.
Penises (penii?)
loom large in Lindas life.
She and her family are wooed and won by Chuck Traynor.
But its all sweetness and light.
Chuck teaches Linda to give head like its a new age affirmation.
Chuck saves Linda from an overbearing mother and aloof ex-cop father, John Boreman played by Robert Patrick.
I always called Robert Patrick the Terminator guy even though I havent seen theTerminatormovies.
The more he holds it in, the more it wrenches.
Snippets of darkness come when Chuck gets in trouble at work.
Dont ask me about my work?
Who does he think he is?
But she asks and then winds up paying for it.
Cannevale and Azaria play it full of humor and bonhomie.
They are making art.
Their money man is Anthony Romano, played by Chris Noth, always too charming for his own good.
I almost stopped watchingLaw and Orderwhen he left.
Linda Boreman is the girl next door you want to fuck.
Shes not the ideal: blonde with bit tits and a nice round ass.
Damiano is the first to recognize Boremans talents in a home-made porno Chuck shot.
Can she do that with a big cock?
No offense, Peraino asks and Chuck says his lovely Linda can swallow anything.
Porno stars have to have many talents Dolly advises, like shes Xena, the warrior princess of porno.
Of course, the names got to go, and Linda Boreman becomes Linda Lovelace.
Linda asks Did I do anything wrong?
No, Azaria and Cannavale chorus good-naturedly.
Deep Throatbecomes the hit we know today.
Every late-night joke tears apart Lindas mother Dorothy.
But Linda becomes a star.
She is feted by Hugh Hefner, an underplayed James Franco, and meets Sammy Davis Jr. And then it all comes crashing down as the movie retraces its steps and fills in the blanks.
Chuck is too sleazy for the sleaziest of smut mongers.
This is Amanda Seyfrieds movie.
She gives a nuanced performance of ravaged innocence and Long Island redemption as the married Linda Marchiano.
She never loses the Bronx girl trapped in the Florida breakaway.
Amanda, who was one of the stars ofBig Love, shows more big love here.
When she is in love with Chuck, it looks like real love.
All the performances are stellar and the alternative realities are a new cinematic twist.
Linda Lovelace in the film says her life will forever be judged by 17 days.
Lovelace herself made nine adult films includingDogoramaandLinda Lovelace for President.
This film fudges that to make her a one-hit wonder, but why quibble?
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Rating:
4 out of 5
