Inside Deep Throat (2005)

Directors:

Fenton Bailey
Randy Barbato

Writers:

Fenton Bailey (co-writer)
Randy Barbato (co-writer)

Release Date:

21 April 2005 (Russia)

Genre:

Documentary

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:

More than 30 years after Deep Throat's provocative debut, this documentary examines the legacy that the most profitable film of all-time left on society.

Plot Keywords:

Archive Footage | Interview | Film Clip | Explicit Sex | What Happened To Epilogue

Cast

Dennis Hopper	...	Narrator (voice)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Peter Bart	...	Himself
Warren Beatty	...	Himself (archive footage)
Carl Bernstein	...	Himself
Tony Bill	...	Himself
Ralph Blumenthal	...	Himself
Barbara Boreman	...	Herself - Linda's sister
Helen Gurley Brown	...	Herself
Susan Brownmiller	...	Herself
Lenny Camp	...	Himself - location manager
Lee Carroll	...	Herself (archive footage)
Patsy Carroll	...	Herself - Linda's friend
Johnny Carson	...	Himself (archive footage)
Dick Cavett	...	Himself
Roy M. Cohn	...	Himself (archive footage)
Francis Ford Coppola	...	Himself (archive footage)
Wes Craven	...	Himself
Gerard Damiano	...	Himself
Gerard Damiano Jr.	...	Himself
Alan M. Dershowitz	...	Himself (as Alan Dershowitz)
Sepy Dobronyi	...	Himself
Eric Edwards	...	Himself (archive footage)
Larry Flynt	...	Himself
Al Goldstein	...	Himself
John Goreman	...	Himself - Former NYPD officer
Ray Gunn	...	Himself (as Ray Pistol)
Hugh M. Hefner	...	Himself (as Hugh Hefner)
Xaviera Hollander	...	Herself
Bob Hope	...	Himself (archive footage)
Erica Jong	...	Herself
Herb Kassner	...	Himself - Deep Throat attorney
Charles Keating	...	Himself
Bill Kelly	...	Himself
Bruce Kramer	...	Himself
Jon Lewis	...	Himself
Linda Lovelace	...	Herself (archive footage)
Bill Maher	...	Himself
Norman Mailer	...	Himself
Peter Manouse	...	Himself
Lindsay Marchiano	...	Herself
William Margold	...	Himself (archive footage)
Camille Paglia	...	Herself
Larry Parrish	...	Himself
Michael Pataki	...	Cab driver (archive footage)
Ed Powers	...	Himself (archive footage)
William Purcell	...	Himself - Deep Throat prosecutor
Harry Reems	...	Himself
Ray Shipley	...	Himself
Arthur Sommer	...	Himself - theater manager
Terry Sommer	...	Himself
Georgina Spelvin	...	Herself
Annie Sprinkle	...	Herself
Selena Steele	...	Herself (archive footage)
Mike Sullivan	...	Himself - former NYPD officer
Andrea True	...	Herself
Gore Vidal	...	Himself
John Waters	...	Himself
Ron Wertheim	...	Himself
Ruth Westheimer	...	Herself (as Dr. Ruth Westheimer)
Linda Williams	...	Herself
David Winters	...	Himself

MPAA:

Rated NC-17 for explicit sexual content; Rated R for strong sexuality including graphic images, nudity and dialogue (edited version)

Runtime:

USA:92 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Switzerland:16 (canton of Zurich) | Philippines:R-18 | Malaysia:(Banned) | Italy:VM14 | France:-12 | Hong Kong:III | South Korea:18 | Portugal:M/16 | Iceland:16 | Netherlands:16 | Japan:R-18 | Sweden:15 | Argentina:18 | Canada:16+ (Quebec) | Canada:18 (Nova Scotia) | Canada:R (Alberta/British Columbia/Manitoba/Ontario) | Finland:K-18 | Ireland:18 | Singapore:R21 (cut) | UK:18 | USA:NC-17 | Germany:16 | Norway:15 | USA:R (edited version) | Switzerland:16 (canton of Vaud) | Switzerland:16 (canton of Geneva) | Australia:R

Company:

Imagine Entertainment

Trivia:

The filmmakers collected about 800 hours of interview and archive footage.

Goofs:

Factual errors: Early in the film, an unseen projectionist starts the film and we can see the projected image through the projection room window. He carelessly allows the leader to show on the screen. A frame marked "FOOT" is shown. Unless he is running the film backwards, this is wrong. The beginning of a film is marked "HEAD".

Quotes:

Barbara Boreman: When she died, she was penniless.

Movie Connections:

Features Changes (1970)

Soundtrack:

Fashion Party

Good look at the film and the times.

This is the story of the film that changed our culture and how our society looks at sex. Inside Deep Throat takes us behind the scenes of the making of the film,tells us how it became a huge blockbuster, and how it changed the lives of all of the people involved.

This is a very good primer to understanding Deep Throats impact on sex and censorship. This film does a very good job at laying out the story of the film and placing it into the context of the times. If you don't know what the big deal was when this film came out, you'll get a very good understanding of just why and how the film became so big that even small kids knew its name (though not its content). You'll also get a good over view of the battle to censor and to keep the film from public view, and an idea of how it shaped our world today.

I really did like this film a great deal. My one real reservation is that this film focuses a too much on the one film. Certainly the with Deep Throat in the title, I expected it to be mostly focused on that, but the censorship wars that were being fought at the same time involved other films and other media,for example the battle over George Carlin's Seven Dirty Words was happening at about the same time and was just as important.

But I'm nit picking. This is a good movie. Its a good starting point for learning about the film and the times that made our times what they are.