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| Dennis Hopper | ... | Narrator (voice) | |
| Gerard Damiano | ... | Himself | |
| John Waters | ... | Himself | |
| Larry Flynt | ... | Himself | |
| Erica Jong | ... | Herself | |
| Ruth Westheimer | ... | Herself (as Dr. Ruth Westheimer) | |
| Dick Cavett | ... | Himself | |
| Camille Paglia | ... | Herself | |
| Linda Lovelace | ... | Herself (archive footage) | |
| Hugh M. Hefner | ... | Himself (as Hugh Hefner) | |
| Bill Maher | ... | Himself | |
| Norman Mailer | ... | Himself | |
| Charles Keating | ... | Himself | |
| Alan M. Dershowitz | ... | Himself (as Alan Dershowitz) | |
| Larry Parrish | ... | Himself | |
| Gore Vidal | ... | Himself | |
| Al Goldstein | ... | Himself | |
| Francis Ford Coppola | ... | Himself (archive footage) | |
| Georgina Spelvin | ... | Herself | |
| Ron Wertheim | ... | Himself | |
| Andrea True | ... | Herself | |
| Wes Craven | ... | Himself | |
| Harry Reems | ... | Himself | |
| Patsy Carroll | ... | Herself - Linda's Friend | |
| Barbara Boreman | ... | Herself - Linda's Sister | |
| Len Camp | ... | Himself - Location Manager (as Lenny Camp) | |
| Sepy Dobronyi | ... | Himself (as The Swinger Count) | |
| Linda Williams | ... | Herself | |
| Helen Gurley Brown | ... | Herself | |
| John V. Lindsay | ... | Himself (archive footage) (as Mayor John Lindsay) | |
| John Goreman | ... | Himself - Former NYPD Officer (as John Gorman) | |
| Mike Sullivan | ... | Himself - Former NYPD Officer | |
| Herb Kassner | ... | Himself - Deap Throat Attorney | |
| William Purcell | ... | Himself - Deep Throat Prosecutor | |
| Ralph Blumenthal | ... | Himself | |
| Xaviera Hollander | ... | Herself | |
| Carl Bernstein | ... | Himself | |
| Joel J. Tyler | ... | Himself - Judge (archive footage) (as Judge Tyler) | |
| Arthur Sommer | ... | Himself - Theater Manager | |
| Bill Kelly | ... | Himself | |
| Peter Bart | ... | Himself | |
| Peter Manouse | ... | Himself | |
| Ray Shipley | ... | Himself | |
| Bruce Kramer | ... | Himself | |
| Roy M. Cohn | ... | Himself (archive footage) | |
| Tony Bill | ... | Himself | |
| Jack Nicholson | ... | Himself (archive footage) | |
| Warren Beatty | ... | Himself (archive footage) | |
| Susan Brownmiller | ... | Herself | |
| Tom Snyder | ... | Himself (archive footage) | |
| Gloria Steinem | ... | Herself (archive footage) | |
| Jon Lewis | ... | Himself | |
| Annie Sprinkle | ... | Herself | |
| Lindsay Marchiano | ... | Herself | |
| Terry Sommer | ... | Herself | |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Johnny Carson | ... | Himself (archive footage) (uncredited) | |
| Jeff Conaway | ... | Kenickie (archive footage) (uncredited) | |
| Gerard Damiano Jr. | ... | Himself (uncredited) | |
| Eric Edwards | ... | Himself (archive footage) (uncredited) | |
| Bob Hope | ... | Himself (archive footage) (uncredited) | |
| Michael Pataki | ... | Ziggy ("The Last Porno Flick") (archive footage) (uncredited) | |
| Chuck Traynor | ... | Himself (archive footage) (uncredited) | |
Directed by | |||
| Fenton Bailey | |||
| Randy Barbato | |||
Writing credits(in alphabetical order) | ||
| Fenton Bailey | ||
| Randy Barbato | ||
Produced by | |||
| Fenton Bailey | .... | producer | |
| Randy Barbato | .... | producer | |
| Mona Card | .... | co-producer | |
| Brian Grazer | .... | producer | |
| Ian Mallahan | .... | associate producer | |
| Kim Roth | .... | executive producer | |
| Ashley York | .... | associate producer | |
| Ron Howard | .... | producer (uncredited) | |
Original Music by | |||
| David Benjamin Steinberg | |||
Cinematography by | |||
| David Kempner | |||
| Teodoro Maniaci | |||
Film Editing by | |||
| William Grayburn | |||
| Jeremy Simmons | |||
Casting by | |||
| Ed Arenas | |||
Makeup Department | |||
| Anouck Sullivan | .... | makeup artist | |
Production Management | |||
| Beau J. Genot | .... | post-production supervisor | |
| Devon Schneider | .... | production manager | |
Sound Department | |||
| Gregg Barbanell | .... | foley artist | |
| Michael Bergman | .... | additional sound | |
| Paul Berolzheimer | .... | foley recordist | |
| Lance Brown | .... | sound re-recording mixer | |
| Lance Brown | .... | supervising sound editor | |
| Michael Camello | .... | sound effects designer | |
| Joe Crabb | .... | additional sound | |
| Thomas Craca | .... | additional sound | |
| Stephanie Flack | .... | dialogue editor | |
| Bruce Fortune | .... | supervising adr editor (as Bruce D. Fortune) | |
| Michael Geisler | .... | foley recordist | |
| Albee Gordon | .... | sound recordist | |
| Paul Hackner | .... | dialogue editor | |
| Joe Hettinger | .... | additional sound | |
| Eddie Kim | .... | sound effects designer | |
| Kimberly Ellen Lowe | .... | dialogue editor (as Kimberly Lowe Voigt) | |
| Del Martin | .... | digital engineer | |
| David McRell | .... | digital engineer | |
| Chris Navarro | .... | adr recordist | |
| James Azizi Penny | .... | sound effects editor | |
| Jason Piatt | .... | foley editor | |
| Eric Raber | .... | digital sound transfer engineer | |
| Brion Regan | .... | sound mixer: New York | |
| Jayme Roy | .... | sound recordist | |
| Mark Roy | .... | additional sound | |
| George Shafnaker | .... | additional sound | |
| David Benjamin Steinberg | .... | additional sound designer | |
| Eric Thompson | .... | adr mixer | |
| Mark Weber | .... | sound mixer | |
| Nathan Whitehead | .... | first assistant sound editor | |
| Tom Williams | .... | additional sound | |
| James Wright | .... | consultant: Dolby surround | |
| Lars Bjerre | .... | dialogue denoising (uncredited) | |
Visual Effects by | |||
| Orlando Delbert | .... | graphic designer (uncredited) | |
Editorial Department | |||
| Marc Fisher | .... | finishing editor | |
| Joe Fontes | .... | post-production assistant | |
| Clay Foster | .... | second assistant editor | |
| Ricardo Gonzalez | .... | second assistant editor | |
| Ryan Growney | .... | post-production assistant | |
| Terry Haggar | .... | color timer | |
| Christine Seino | .... | assistant on-line editor | |
| Michael R. Taylor | .... | post-production assistant | |
| Tom Wolf | .... | head of post-production | |
| Craig Sawczuk | .... | post-production coordinator (uncredited) | |
Music Department | |||
| Danny Bramson | .... | music consultant | |
| Ed Bruno | .... | music assistant | |
| Erik Masone | .... | music assistant | |
| Angelos Skordos | .... | music coordinator (as Angelo 'Pepe' Skordos) | |
| Casey Stone | .... | music scoring mixer | |
| Ronald J. Webb | .... | music editor | |
Thanks | |||
| Johann Benét | .... | special thanks | |
| Barbara Boreman | .... | acknowledgment: still photographs courtesy of | |
| Jamie Boulton | .... | thanks | |
| Steven Corfe | .... | thanks | |
| Gerard Damiano | .... | special thanks | |
| Richard Dreyfuss | .... | special thanks | |
| Eric Edwards | .... | special thanks | |
| David Flint | .... | special thanks | |
| Elliott Gould | .... | thanks | |
| Lindsay Marchiano | .... | acknowledgment: still photographs courtesy of | |
| Paul Mazursky | .... | thanks | |
| Sheila Nevins | .... | special thanks | |
| Raymond Pistol | .... | special thanks (as Ray Pistol) | |
| Brad Rosenberger | .... | special thanks | |
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Sure, there are the corny jokes, the innuendo, and of course, the deep throat scene (you knew that was...erm...coming...sigh), but this film is beyond that. It's about a phenomenon - a phenomenon that changed the way North America views sex, pornography, censorship, and feminism.
Deep Throat changed America. Stop laughing, shaking your head - it's true! After Deep Throat, the government tried to shut down 'lewd' and 'vulgar' behaviour, and tried to keep it from the screens - but it was too powerful. The streets were filled with people who proclaimed their rights to watch the 'filth' if they wanted to - and these people weren't just shady perverts, protest-hungry college students and free-loving hippies, they were the middle class, the bourgeois, the suburban, the housewives and businessmen, older ladies and middle-age soccer moms - they were suburban middle America, and they were hungry to take part in this wave of commercial sexuality. America had been repressed for forty years and they needed to LET IT OUT!
The downside is that the phenomenon won. And one thing led to another, and somewhere along the way it lost its edge and we lost the sensual, leaving us with the sexual alone. The explicit, the clinical, the self-stimulating - we have it all on the click of the satellite remote, the DVD player, the internet - but there's no love in it any more. Deep Throat was hokey. It was crap. But it celebrated sex in a FUN way. And the 70s porn industry loved the body, it loved being sexy, it loved sultriness and sexuality. All you have to do is look at the art-house softcore films of the era - Emmanuelle, Camillle 3000, etc - to see this. Feminists were split - some loved the sexual freedom, others hated the exploitation - but everyone agreed that it was all RELEVANT. In a way, Deep Throat opened doors that desperately needed to be opened, but in a way it ruined what could have been beautiful. We won the right, but lost the passion.
Meanwhile, how often are you gong to have Larry Flynt, Dick Cavitt, Camille Paglia, John Waters, Alan Dershowitz, Normal Mailer, Bill Maher, Erica Jong, Xaviera Hollander and GORE VIDAL (!!!), one after the other lauding the most successful film in history??
This film is fascinating because it looks beyond the porn. It gives the curious, and the porn-hungry, that Deep Throat scene and a little sex thrown in for good measure. But those looking for XXX-friendly masturbation material are in the wrong theater, and will be bored by the talking heads, as they argue the pros and cons of a cheaply made, hokey porn flick that wouldn't elicit more than a half-chuckle from today's film-going audience (or from today's multi-billion dollar porn industry).
We see those who applaud and those who oppose. We see how Andrea True became a one-hit wonder (More More More!!), we see how Harry Reems became the scapegoat/fall guy and was convicted and incarcerated for obscenity (it probably should have been for bad acting...), and we see how Linda Lovelace was used and abused by everyone from her husband to the porn industry to feminists, each with their own agenda. Will the real Linda Lovelace please stand up? (Question: did Gloria Steinem exploit Lovelace any less than the porn industry did...??)
Fact: The porn industry has degenerated into everything it was expected to
Fact: Those in the porn industry who aspire to higher standards are 99% likely to be doomed to fail miserably and get blacklisted in Hollywood
Fact: Inside Deep Throat is the first documentary to really look at the shift within the industry, and where it all went wrong.
Not for the overly prude, the overly perverted or the closed minded. For the few of you who are left, it's an easy 7.5/10.