Sex: The Annabel Chong Story (1999)

User Rating:

5.6/10   

Director:

Gough Lewis

Release Date:

11 February 2000 (USA)

Genre:

Documentary

Plot Keywords:

Pornography | Porn Industry | Behind The Scenes | Hardcore | Pornography Documentary

Awards:

1 nomination

Cast

Annabel Chong	...	Herself
John T. Bone	...	Himself
Ed Powers	...	Himself
Dr. Walter Williams	...	Himself (Prof. of Anthropology, USC)
Charles Conn	...	Himself (friend / classmate)
Dick James	...	Himself (president, Annabel Chong Fan Club)
Monica Moran	...	Herself (friend / classmate)
Steve Austin	...	Himself (talent agent, World Modeling Agency)
Jim South	...	Himself (Owner, World Modeling Agency / porn directr)
Al Goldstein	...	Himself
Ron Jeremy	...	Himself
Lanisha Shanthi Easter	...	Herself (friend / former lover)
Mr. Quek	...	Himself (father)
Mrs. Quek	...	Herself (mother)
Allenina W.	...	Herself (as Allen Wong)

Runtime:

Australia:86 min | France:85 min | Japan:86 min | UK:86 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Sound Mix:

Dolby SR

Certification:

New Zealand:R18 | Iceland:16 | Australia:R | Finland:K-18 | France:-16 | Hong Kong:III | South Korea:18 (original rating) (cut version) | South Korea:Limited (re-release) (uncut version) | UK:18

Filming Locations:

Benjamin Sheares Bridge, Singapore

Company:

Coffee House Films

Trivia:

The event was halted early due to concerns over the rough treatment Annabel was receiving.

Quotes:

Robert Black: Put a police officer right here, and you have a girl right here, and have me say, "Will you suck my dick for $50?" and she says, "Yeah," they'll arrest us because that's prostitution and that's a pimp. But because we have this camera here, "We're gonna make a movie now. You're gonna suck my dick and I'm gonna give you $50. We're gonna make a porno," and that's legal.

Movie Connections:

Features World's Biggest Gang Bang 2 (1996) (V)

Moving and tragic

Intensly personal and moving documentary about the life and times of arguably one of the more well known porn stars - Annabel Chong.

The film covers the time during and following her world record of sleeping with 251 men in 10 hours. We see her preparation for the attempt, the attempt itself and the years following where she was afforded great fame but at a huge personal loss.

Annabel is a very intelligent woman; she studied and graduated from USC in 1998 and from her teachers accounts she is a very articulate writer and thinks very analytically. Its only when she tries to verbalise a lot of what she is thinking that we see the pain, the emotional torment that must be facing her every day of her life.

Her voice is one that seems to be on the verge of breaking down into total incomphrensibility - it falters, pauses and staggers along - fuelled a mind that is providing the information but the mouth cannot process it fast enough.

She is a tortured woman; you can see everyone of those 251 men in her eyes every time the conversation moves around to the record breaking feat. She often justifies it by calling it an experiment; one that shows the empowerment of women over men - she was showing that women can be just as agressive sexually as men.

But the price she has paid for it is great. She did not tell her parents for over two years that she was a porn actress. Though not filmed; the after effects of the revelation are shown graphically; her mother on the floor of her room packing Annabels bag, crying and moaning as she removes all trace of her daughter from her life.

There is a lot to this documentary that is worth discovering. Don't get it just for some mindless titalation - there is little of that during its 86 minute running time. What you do get though is a look into the human condition; a condition that craves acceptance amongst peers, a condition that believes it is in control of its own destiny.

A moving lesson for all.

8 out of 10.