Lovelace

2013 "The truth goes deeper than you think."
6.2| 1h32m| R| en
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Story of Linda Lovelace, who is used and abused by the porn industry at the behest of her coercive husband, before taking control of her life.

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Scanialara You won't be disappointed!
Contentar Best movie of this year hands down!
Motompa Go in cold, and you're likely to emerge with your blood boiling. This has to be seen to be believed.
Portia Hilton Blistering performances.
trashgang I came across this flick while searching for James Franco. So I came across About Cherry (2012) a flick about a young girl falling into the traps of the porn industry but sadly About Cherry misses it's aim. Lovelace came a year later and again Franco is just in it for a few minutes but that didn't bother me because being grown up in the seventies I still can remember those 'dirty theatres' at my hometown. It was full bloom porn that people were attending without bothering who could see you walk in, can't figure that one out nowadays. The seventies were the heydays of porn and the most notorious flick must have been Deep Throat (1972). The main star was Linda Lovelace. Sadly people not interested in flicks doesn't know what happened with here and had other things going on in their mind watching her but her life was one piece of sh*t.This is exactly what this flick shows from being a girl next door girl to be found by Chuck Traynor (Peter Sarsgaard). he was a nice guy but once shown how to have sex Linda became a victim of the brutality of Chuck. She was raised to obey your husband and that was what she did falling into the porn industry. Only appeared in 8 flicks she the most famous porn star of her time. Strangely this flick also gave some controversy as did Deep Throath due the fact that Amanda Seyfried was going to play Lovelace. She's not known for taking on that part of roles but she did fine and I was surprised that she even went naked. Some do say that the story shown isn't correct but it do shows how the industry worked and how some girls were threatened. I did like it to see the story behind Linda how becoming famous and how she ended her career moving on for 20 years against the porn industry and violence at home. Towards the end you will see the real Lovelace who died in 2002 due injuries at a car crash. Well acted and good story as simple as that.Gore 0/5 Nudity 1/5 Effects 0/5 Story 3/5 Comedy 0/5
James Hitchcock Linda Lovelace (1949- 2002) was one of the more unlikely celebrities of the early seventies. Her sole claim to fame was that she had starred in a pornographic film entitled "Deep Throat", a film which had for some reason become a media sensation and was screened across America in mainstream cinemas. Now I have never seen "Deep Throat", and would have little interest in doing so, so cannot speculate about just why it became such a phenomenon, but it was an undoubted success at the box office, where it may have taken as much as $600 million. (Exact figures are controversial because of claims that takings may have been exaggerated by the film's organised crime backers as part of a money- laundering scheme).Lovelace made a few more films in a similar vein, but none were a success, and faded from public view in the late seventies. In 1980, however, she returned to the popular consciousness with the publication of her autobiography, "Ordeal". Now a born-again Christian and an opponent of pornography, she claimed that she had been forced into making "Deep Throat" and its successors by her violent, abusive husband and manager Chuck Traynor, whom she had divorced during the interim. (Traynor subsequently married another porn star, Marilyn Chambers). In the film Lovelace is also referred to by her maiden name, Linda Boreman, and by the name of her second husband as Linda Marchiano, but for the sake of consistency I will refer to her as "Lovelace" throughout this review. Lovelace's allegations have been disputed, both by Traynor himself and by his associates, but this film takes them seriously. It is therefore divided into two parts. Part I tells the story of Lovelace's life as it might have appeared to an uncritical outside observer at the height of her fame. She appears to be a successful, confident young woman, happy in her chosen career as a porn actress and in her marriage. Part II tells the story that Linda was to tell in "Ordeal". In one respect Amanda Seyfried is perhaps miscast in this film; she is too attractive. For all her sex-symbol image, Lovelace was no great beauty. In all other respects, however, she is very good. I was not particularly taken with Seyfried in the first film in which I saw her, "Mamma Mia!", but most of her performances I have seen since then have impressed me a lot more, especially the one she gave in "Chloe". The structure of "Lovelace" means that she effectively has to give two different performances, and she copes with the challenge well. In Part I she makes Linda a curiously innocent figure, the happy-go-lucky girl next door who unexpectedly makes good. OK, she makes good as a porn queen, but this unorthodox choice of career never detracts from her essential niceness. In Part II she has to give a much more complex performance, showing how Linda was the victim of her abusive husband without ever making her seem too passive. Seyfried receives good support from Peter Sarsgaard as Chuck and from Sharon Stone as Linda's strict Catholic mother Dorothy. Stone's performance came as something of a revelation to me; in the early part of her career she had the image of one of the sexiest women in Hollywood, especially after the success of films like "Basic Instinct", so it was difficult to imagine her playing someone as sexless and puritanical as Dorothy Boreman. She clearly has a greater range as an actress than I had realised. The film implies, in fact, that Lovelace fell for Chuck, despite his obvious vulgarity and manipulative behaviour, precisely because he seemed to promise liberation from her austere, joyless upbringing. Much of the criticism of this film on this board has been directed at the supposed inaccuracies and inconsistencies in Lovelace's account of her life, but as I have never seen any of her films, never read any of her various autobiographies and have no idea whether or not she was telling the truth about Traynor and the making of "Deep Throat" I am not in a position to reach a judgement on these matters. As a portrayal of a deeply dysfunctional, abusive relationship, however, Seyfried and Sarsgaard do enough to make it convincing. Lovelace's allegations may, or may not, have been true; domestic abuse is undoubtedly all too real. This is a film that has the ring of truth. 7/10
Bryan Kluger 'Lovelace' is the first of two films this year based on the porn phenomenon Linda Lovelace, who rose to superstardom in the early '70s with the film 'Deep Throat'.This bio-pic might've been a disaster, but directors Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman have made an engaging and entertaining look at the former Linda Boreman's life, even if her situations are difficult to watch at times. The acting is spot-on, and the movie has a killer retro soundtrack.You've probably heard the story of 'Deep Throat', one of the first porno films to include a plot, characters and a decently-sized budget. Shot for around $50,000, the movie has made hundreds of millions in profit over the years.We first meet Linda (Amanda Seyfried) as a 19-year-old girl living with her parents (Robert Patrick and an unrecognizable Sharon Stone) in Florida, where she and her friend are hired as Go-Go dancers at the local skating rink. A man by the name of Chuck Traynor (Peter Sarsgaard) takes a liking to her, and the two eventually run off to get married. After Chuck realizes Linda's talent, he brings her to porn producer Butchie Periano (Bobby Cannavale) and director Gerard Damiano (Hank Azaria). As we already know from history, the movie they made together became a huge success.However, as we see in a time-jump several years forward, Linda later wrote a book called 'Ordeal' that chronicled her life with Traynor, who she claimed beat and tortured her, and forced her into slavery and gang rapes for money. He also handled all her financial affairs and never let her see a dime from the movie. It's a sad and depressing story, but not without a light of hope as Linda escapes Traynor and becomes an activist for women's rights who spoke out against pornography until her untimely death by car crash in 2002.The film is similar in structure to 'Boogie Nights'. The first section is fun with lots of '70s music, dancing and parties. Then, the second half is a dark downward spiral as these successful people hit rock bottom, and Linda is forced to perform wretched acts on strangers by her abusive husband.Seyfried brings Linda Lovelace to life. She's elegant, attractive and damn fun to watch. The actress captures the emotional depth of this sad tale. Sarsgaard pulls off one of the slimiest characters ever put to film. Not once do you like this guy. Sharon Stone is the wild card here; she's physically unrecognizable, but gives one hell of a supporting performance. Cannavale and Azaria turn in hilarious supporting roles, and the movie also has cameos by James Franco (as a young Hugh Hefner), Wes Bentley, Eric Roberts, Adam Brody and Juno Temple.
davideo-2 STAR RATING: ***** Saturday Night **** Friday Night *** Friday Morning ** Sunday Night * Monday MorningIn the early 70's, Linda Lovelace (Amanda Seyfried) caused a sensation by appearing in Deep Throat, a ground breaking entry in the pornographic film market that propelled her to stardom. But how much of it was her choice, and how much was she coerced in to the film and everything that followed it by her abusive partner, Chuck (Peter Sarsgaard). The film charts Linda's involvement in the film and how it went on to have an affect on every aspect of her life afterward, especially the relationship with her strict, conservative parents (Sharon Stone and Robert Patrick), and the downside of instant fame and notoriety.Looking at what a massive, multi-million dollar industry it now is, it's hard to consider the pornographic industry's place in modern culture, especially in America, once such an ultra conservative, puritanical society, and now where it has it's biggest market and production base. So it's interesting for a filmmaker (or two filmmakers, as is the case here) to delve in to a time and place when this seismic change originally took place and the public were first shocked to their senses, forcing a change in long steeped attitudes and beliefs, and this almost undoubtedly first happened with the release of Deep Throat, which Lovelace seeks to explore. Sadly, the combined efforts of Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman, whose only other real mainstream project was 2010's Howl besides a load of documentaries and short films, still can't really get under the skin of it's subject matter and really explore it in any great detail.Despite all the missed opportunity in the writing and dramatization, somehow Amanda Seyfried's lead performance still strikes a chord, bringing to life a fish out of water young lady who tries to put on a brave front and deal with everyone's sudden interest in her, but can't disguise her vulnerability or the feeling that she's not really comfortable with what she's done and hasn't been horribly taken advantage of in some way. Likewise, Sarsgaard is conversely as disgusting as the manipulative, abusive sleazebag who manages to forge a hold on a damaged young girl. In support, an unrecognizable Stone makes an impression with screen partner Patrick as the repressive but loving parents. No one can fault the performances, it's the material that lets the side down, and it's such a shame.This is simply not the sum of it's parts, a missed chance that lacks the courage or integrity to really make it's subject come to life and leaves the audience with just a wanton longing for something more sufficient. **