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Having created an empire on girly shows and skin flicks, Jim Mitchell and Artie Mitchell achieved mainstream success with Behind the Green Door (1972), one of only a handful of hardcore porn movies to do so. Brothers Emilio Estevez and Charlie Sheen star in the film about the life and troubled times of porn's dynamic duo. Opening with the 1991 fratricidal murder of Artie (Sheen) at the hands of Jim (Estevez, who also directs), the film flashes back to their father lecturing them on the
Feb 1, 2001 Wide
Feb 6, 2001
Showtime Networks Inc.
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The brother angle does give this story a distinctive dimension, and the brothers Estevez and Sheen, their pates shaved to help them represent the odd-looking Mitchells, do an uncanny, genuinely impressive job.
The film inevitably streamlines and neatens up the Mitchell's spectacularly messy lives. But for anyone who missed the short but influential era of porno chic, it's an eye-opener, a primer on how we got here from there.
Intriguing, but Sheen and Estevez are not good enough to engross the viewer.
...this just isn't an interesting story, with the Mitchell brothers making for truly unsympathetic protagonists.
It took extraordinary caution to make a film this boring from the Mitchell Brothers' story.
fantastic!!! i love behind the green door and this is the mitchell bros story of their short rise and hard fall. and its great that real bros played the bros. i loved this movie!!!!!! it makes me want to be a porn director even more than i already do!
August 29, 2008Its actually a pretty good movie. Don't let the title fool you, its not really rated x. But real life brothers Sheen and Esteves play the Mitchell brothers who started the porn business. Its not all about sex and it gets pretty interesting toward the end.
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