Inside Deep Throat, the documentary produced by Imagine Entertainment's Brian Grazer about the $25,000 "blue movie" that launched an unprecedented social and political firestorm, is coming to DVD Sept. 20.
The first sexually explicit film to cross over to mainstream audiences, 1972's Deep Throat turned out to be far more than a titillating curiosity. Breaking longstanding taboos against openly discussing sex in polite society, the movie helped launch the sexual revolution - and ignited a conservative moral backlash. Eventually banned in 23 states and an explicit target of the Nixon administration, Deep Throat nonetheless succeeded in becoming a cultural phenomenon like no other.
With frank, lively interviews and fascinating archival footage, Inside Deep Throat examines the production, the politics, and the profound cultural impact of a phenomenon that remains as controversial today as it was over 30 years ago. Narrated by Dennis Hopper, the documentary features interviews with Deep Throat stars Linda Lovelace and Harry Reems, as well as director Gerard Damiano.
Helping to explain the film's lasting effect on American culture are Carl Bernstein, Helen Gurley Brown, anti-pornography activist Susan Brownmiller, Dick Cavett, Alan Dershowitz, Larry Flynt, Hugh Hefner, Erica Jong, Charles Keating, Bill Maher, Camille Paglia, Georgina Spelvin, Andrea True, Gore Vidal, John Waters and Dr. Ruth Westheimer, among others.
There are both R-rated and NC-17 versions of the DVD.
