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Release Date
• USA: Feb 11, 2005
• UK: 10 Jun 2005
DVD Release Date
• R1: Sep 20, 2005
Budget USD 2,000,000
BoxOffice: $0.5M
Official Website:
Inside Deep Throat Website
MPAA Rating
Rated NC-17 for explicit sexual content; Rated R for strong sexuality including graphic images, nudity and dialogue (edited version)
Running Time
1 hour, 32 minutes
Country USA
Production Companies
Imagine Entertainment, HBO Documentary Films, World of Wonder, Home Box Office (HBO)
Studio Universal Pictures
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Genre: Documentary, Adult
Tagline: It was filmed in 6 days for 25 thousand dollars. The government didn't want you to see it. It was banned in 23 states. It has grossed over 600 million dollars. And it is the most profitable film in motion picture history.
Plot: 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 explicit X-Rated movie starring Linda Lovelace as a fellatio-crazed woman with a clitoris located in her throat--audiences flocked to it in droves. The film was a cut above standard adult fare, and attracted an unusually high percentage of female viewers who reveled in seeing a female character attain sexual satisfaction in the male-dominated world of adult films. With the public's interest piqued, controversy followed, and a court case against the movie prompted the government to try to ban the film outright. This only drew more people to it, and its combined box office is estimated at $600 million--an incredible return on the original $25,000 investment. Or was it? Damiano never made a cent from the film, while Lovelace and co-star Harry Reems made $1450 between them. Lovelace complained bitterly about her treatment on the set in her memoir--the appropriately titled ORDEAL--and Reems had to go through his own obscenity trial, during which he succumbed to the temptations of alcohol and
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...Inside Deep Throat is a shallow film that will leave those who yearn for something more substantial feeling a little parched.  --James Berardinelli (ReelViews)
The movie uses new and old interviews and newsreel footage to remember a time when porn was brand-new.  --Roger Ebert (Chicago Sun-Times)
Inside Deep Throat moves like a bullet, though, running through its subjects with punch-drunk glee and stitching it all together with a pounding K-Tel Super Hits of the Seventies soundtrack. While it may be just another fantasy of the halcyon free sex era that was supposedly so relentlessly crushed by today’s soulless porn industry (the same thesis taken in Boogie Nights), this is still a potent chronicle of a tumultuous time.  --Chris Barsanti (FilmCritic.com)
Inside Deep Throat is a fascinating and funny film that takes us back to the time of the sexual revolution when the incredible success of a single movie epitomized the tectonic shifts in America's concept of sexual morality. --Steve Rhodes
Ultimately, INSIDE DEEP THROAT isn’t about the specifics of this particular film and its ramifications, fascinating as they are.  --Andrea Chase (Killer Movie Reviews)
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Fenton Bailey
Party Monster, The Eyes of Tammy Faye, Party Monster | Randy Barbato
Party Monster, The Eyes of Tammy Faye, Party Monster |
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| Inside Deep Throat, which opens today at the Mayan, might be more entertaining than instructive, but it manages to return us to a time when the world seemed crazy in a different sort of way. It puts us squarely in touch with yesterday's weirdness. B --Robert Denerstein
It's a giggle of a movie that helped forge the sexual revolution and screw up its participants...The film goes beyond historical anecdotes. Besides fresh and funny insights from the likes of Norman Mailer and John Waters, it shows how little censorship politics have changed from Nixon to Bush. --Peter Travers (Rolling Stone)
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