After Porn Ends (2012)

An exploration of the lives of several former adult performers who have retired from the porn industry.

Director:

Bryce Wagoner

Stars:

Amber Lynn, Asia Carrera, Bobby Slayton

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Amber Lynn	...	Herself
Asia Carrera	...	Herself
Bobby Slayton	...	Himself
Crissy Moran	...	Herself
David Weintraub	...	Himself
Neil Malamuth	...	Himself (as Dr. Neil Malamuth)
Houston	...	Herself
John Leslie	...	Himself
Juliana Gordon	...	Herself
Kathleen Lucas	...	Herself - John Leslie's Wife (as Kathleen Leslie)
Luke Ford	...	Himself
Mary Carey	...	Herself
Nina Hartley	...	Herself
Randy West	...	Himself
Raylene	...	Herself

Storyline

After Porn Ends is a documentary that not only examines the lives and careers of some of the biggest names in the history of the adult entertainment industry but what happens to them after they leave the business and try and live the "normal" lives that millions of other Americans enjoy. They hailed from the rural South, steel towns, and the San Fernando Valley. As teenagers and young adults, none of them thought that porn was in their future. They were artists, baseball players, child prodigies, and even Ivy Leaguers. Now, after their lives in porn, they're TV stars, bounty hunters, writers, and social activists. What happened in between? And, now that they've moved on, can they really live a normal life after porn?

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Plot Keywords:

porn industry | growing up | female nudity | sexuality | pornography documentary | 

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Taglines:

Can they really live a normal life after porn?

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Genres:

Documentary

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Certificate:

Not Rated

Details

Official Sites:

Official Facebook Official site

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

21 May 2012 (USA)

Also Known As:

Life After

Filming Locations:

Animal Acres - 5200 Escondido Canyon Road, Acton, California, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$400,000 (estimated)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Oxymoron Entertainment, Mallick Media

Technical Specs

Runtime:

94 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color (HD)

Did You Know?

Trivia

Tiffany Million was known as Tiffany Mellon when she wrestled for GLOW--the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling--in the mid-'80s. She always wore a sexy shiny gold costume and her gimmick was that of a wealthy New Yorker. She always seemed to lose her matches, often in devastating fashion and pinned after she was on the receiving end of a pile driver or some other big finishing move.

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Quotes

Asia Carrera: [on their exit from the porn industry] The other girls leave with a bad taste in their mouth and they... and I just... I have nothing but good memories when I look back.

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Connections

References A Stroke at Midnight (1993)

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Soundtracks

Sweet Jane
Performed by:
Vocal - Korinna Knoll
Instruments and Percussion - Adam Peters
Acoustic Guitar - Johnny Marr
Backing Vocals - Nick Urata, Andy Cabic, Nick Laird Clowes, Adam Peters
Drums - Chris Lacinak

User Reviews

Hey, aren't you? I didn't recognize you with pants on

Before we start, a quick nit - why the "Ends" in the title, it doesn't add any understand-ability and it sounds more dramatic without it. Anyway, the documentary which covers precisely the material as advertised could easily have been a NPR "Frontline" installment except for the spliced in footage of the subjects' past lives. Kudos to Bryce Wagoner for using that footage both sparingly and as archival material rather than wallowing in it to raise the titillation factor of the film. Also kudos for a balanced presentation between "actors" who suffered from their prior involvement with those who profited from it and those for whom it was just something they did for a living in the past like selling insurance or bookkeeping. Of course, this does take some of heat out of the proceedings and the film does allow the audience's minds to wonder on several occasions particularly during extended interviews. Also, the subject is limited: of course, most former stars will go on to some of a normal life while others will hang on to the industry given a lack of other employment options. In short, a tidy but limited documentary.