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Inside Deep Throat (2004)

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Average Rating: 7/10
Reviews Counted: 120
Fresh: 99 | Rotten: 21

A documentary on the film that brought smut mainstream, Inside Deep Throat is gaining praise as an entertaining look at a pop culture milestone. However, some critics say the film could have gone a little deeper into the people involved.

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Average Rating: 6.6/10
Critic Reviews: 40
Fresh: 27 | Rotten: 13

A documentary on the film that brought smut mainstream, Inside Deep Throat is gaining praise as an entertaining look at a pop culture milestone. However, some critics say the film could have gone a little deeper into the people involved.

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Movie Info

Directors Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato follow up Party Monster by returning to the documentary form of their most popular film The Eyes of Tammy Faye. Rather than examining evangelists-cum-gay icons, this time the duo takes aim at the cultural phenomenon that is and was Deep Throat, the hardcore porn film that cost 25,000 dollars to make and grossed over 600-million-dollars world-wide, making it the most successful independent film of all time. The impact of the film on the public's

NC-17, 1 hr. 30 min.

Documentary, Television

,

Sep 20, 2005

$0.5M

Universal Pictures

All Critics (124) | Top Critics (40) | Fresh (106) | Rotten (22) | DVD (32)

[A] valuable document of a cultural shift.

July 18, 2005 Full Review Source: New York Magazine | Comment
New York Magazine
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Fascinating social criticism and a witty and relevant take on American sexual history.

April 22, 2005 Full Review Source: Orlando Sentinel | Comment
Orlando Sentinel
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The absorption of Deep Throat into the political melodrama that was Watergate seems to have led to some grandiose statements in Messrs. Bailey and Barbato's documentary.

March 31, 2005 Full Review Source: New York Observer | Comment
New York Observer
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It just doesn't go deep enough.

March 17, 2005 Full Review Source: Arizona Republic | Comment
Arizona Republic
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A better film than its subject.

March 4, 2005 Full Review Source: Dallas Morning News | Comment
Dallas Morning News
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Above all, the film is a lively, music-filled social history.

March 4, 2005 Full Review Source: Houston Chronicle | Comment
Houston Chronicle
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Three days after President Nixon brought a halt to military operations in Vietnam, another offensive maneuver was just beginning in Minneapolis.

August 21, 2009 Full Review Source: City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul | Comment

This keen look at the most successful independent film ever made describes how the film's distribution and profits were taken over by the mob, and how its director and actors were affected be the social and political powers that sought to use it as a tool

May 16, 2009 Full Review Source: ColeSmithey.com | Comment
ColeSmithey.com

A polemic on America, and its incapability to be accepting of sexuality by demonizing and stigmatizing the act...

February 3, 2008 Full Review Source: Cinema Crazed | Comment
Cinema Crazed

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June 21, 2007 Full Review Source: Index.hr | Comment

Move over, Alfred Kinsey. Apparently the unusually avid sex researcher's knack for shaking up the gatekeepers of traditional moral values, may have been a mere dress rehearsal for Deep Throat a few decades later.

June 2, 2007 Full Review | Comment
Long Island Press

Move over, Alfred Kinsey. Apparently the unusually avid sex researcher's knack for shaking up the gatekeepers of traditional moral values, may have been a mere dress rehearsal for Deep Throat a few decades later.

June 2, 2007 Full Review | Comment
Long Island Press

As an exercise in nostalgia...Inside Deep Throat is amusing

February 22, 2007 Full Review Source: Film Journal International | Comment
Film Journal International

Funny and saddening.

February 7, 2006 Full Review Source: MTV | Comment

A sharp documentary that has comedy, tragedy and, yes, a glimpse of Linda Lovelace's party trick.

January 7, 2006 Full Review Source: Empire Magazine | Comment
Empire Magazine

Well-crafted and, in places, highly informative, but with the exception of some of the original film's hardcore sex scenes and the aforementioned Mob angle, there's little we haven't been exposed to before (no pun intended).

December 6, 2005 Full Review Source: Film Threat | Comment
Film Threat

Financed by the mafia, always there when you need them most.

November 18, 2005 Full Review Source: Bangor Daily News (Maine) | Comment
Bangor Daily News (Maine)

There is a nice selection of extras on the disc %u2013 showing how easy it is to come up with documentary material when the subject is itself a documentary.

November 11, 2005 Full Review Source: Apollo Guide | Comment
Apollo Guide

At once amusingly entertaining and yet searingly revealing, Inside Deep Throat is documentary gold

November 3, 2005 Full Review Source: Urban Cinefile | Comment
Urban Cinefile

A transformative, engrossing overview of both a 'dirty,' singular phenomenon and an entire era.

November 3, 2005 Full Review Source: Now Playing Magazine | Comment
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Audience Reviews for Inside Deep Throat

This is a very well-edited and amusing documentary that investigates the cultural influence of one of the most polemic films ever made, as well as its impact on politics, the sexual revolution and the porn industry. An enlightening account that is fascinating and surprising.

February 2, 2012
blacksheepboy

Super Reviewer

Great documentaries come around once in a long time. And one of those is certainly Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato's homage to the most successful pornographic film ever made. Inside Deep Throat not only provides an interesting history to the blockbuster hardcore film, but also provides the gravity of its impact and

September 27, 2011
Matthew Roe
Matthew Roe

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