Kattiera Nana I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

ManiakJiggy This is How Movies Should Be Made

StyleSk8r At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

Sameer Callahan It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

runamokprods 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.

Mr-Fusion 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

nixskits Out of all the X-rated films that could have taken on such a place in the history of the world, it's ridiculous that "Deep Throat" is the one to rise up as the title synonymous with boundary pushing in society. It isn't good by almost any standards! Getting that off my chest, I was pleasantly shocked by how rich in all ways "Inside Deep Throat" is. This cannonball of a nonfiction movie should be watched by some of those teen girls who think that porn is the place for them. I'm not a prude, just a concerned adult who thinks the legal age for performing in porn should be 21 and not merely 18. The lives that would be saved, for lack of a better term, make this a sensible modifying of the laws regarding adult entertainment. (William Margold, who's spent many years writing, producing and performing in the world of X said virtually the same thing a while back.)The lives of the late Chuck, Linda, Gerard and still alive Harry are like four bumper cars that all crashed together in a curious stroke of fate and the fallout is still being felt today. The overwhelming reason is money. Chuck abused and pimped Linda, Harry had his freedom threatened for receiving a pittance to star in the film and Gerard almost had his life ended for being in the way of mob thugs that realized giving him a tiny piece of "Deep Throat" profits would cost them millions.And what millions there were! No one will know the true total, due to such unbridled greed that led to skimming, threats and people disappearing forever. Not until "The Blair Witch Project" came along had another entity in film been such a money tree. The latter became popular from a silly internet based hype, "Deep Throat" because certain officials wouldn't just let it pass with a natural cinematic demise. Some people, such as Joseph McCarthy's right hand man, Roy Cohn, were worse criminals in the damage they caused to society, but felt a need to grandstand against the hippie era and this film was the bastard child of the love generation. Seeing Harry Reems debate Cohn on TV is one of the great moments in this exploration into the human need to feel superior. Superior to maybe just their own image in society's funhouse mirrors of public versus private lives.

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.