The 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.The 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.The 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.
- Awards
- 1 win & 3 nominations
- Sammy Davis Jr.
- (as Ronald Pritchard)
- Directors
- Writer
- All cast & crew
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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaLovelace claimed that Deep Throat (1972) made $600 million at the box office. In his review of Inside Deep Throat (2005), Roger Ebert wrote "Since the mob owned most of the porn theaters in the pre-video days and inflated box office receipts as a way of laundering income from drugs and prostitution, it is likely, in fact, that 'Deep Throat' did not really gross $600 million, although that might have been the box office tally."
- GoofsDuring one party scene set in 1970, Elvin Bishop's "Fooled Around And Fell In Love" plays on the radio. The song was released in 1976.
- Quotes
Linda: You know I spent exactly seventeen days in the pornography industry and somehow these seventeen days are suppose to define who I am for the rest of my life, but I hope that people can see me for who I really am. I mean Linda Lovelace was a fictitious character. My name is Linda Marchiano. I can finally be myself. I'm a mother and a wife and that is where I found my joy.
- SoundtracksI've Got to Use My Imagination
Written by Gerry Goffin and Barry Goldberg
Performed by Gladys Knight & The Pips
Copyright 1973 SCREEN GEMS-EMI MUSIC (BMI)
Courtesy of Buddah
by arrangements with Sony Music Entertainment
Linda's lifestory is a chain of confabulation and reinvention, all lives are, a matter of how we view our selves after the fact and deciding on the value. She wrote apparently no less than three autobiographies, with the third one being the 'real' dark story of what happened to her.
So the 'rise' part of the film sees a wholly innocent, fresh young girl being enticed - so pure and shy she won't even take her top off as she sunbathes with a friend in her own backyard! Silly. But that is how she chooses to frame herself reminiscing in the bathtub.
The 'fall' shows those gaps of horrible abuse that were omitted in that first narration. But that is what she chooses to recall as years later she takes a polygraph test on the behest of the publisher of her memoirs. And that is how Linda has chosen to present her story in her own book, herself pure and corrupted by a crazed husband.
This is not to say that she's making everything up, just as we know she isn't completely honest. Truth is usually somewhere in the middle. We see the alleged rape at gunpoint, yet there's no mention of her seedier films which she had denied doing until proof showed up.
So a film worthy of the subject would show two Lindas at odds, a softer understanding of the effort of trying to decide just who you are: the one who (re)writes her story, and the one who is genuinely caught up in it.
Here we simply get Linda the victim. In the end, a cleansed Linda goes on TV to warn against abuse and to promote 'finding yourself'. The film tries to show this reinvention of self and memory by being itself reinvented halfway through, yet in the end plies the same manipulation. The film 'settles' on her story being real, and presents it to us as the life of Linda Lovelace, why, because it comes with positive value we'd rather remember.
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Details
- Release date
- Country of origin
- Language
- Also known as
- Лавлейс
- Filming locations
- Alex Theatre - 216 North Brand Boulevard, Glendale, California, USA(Deep Throat private screening)
- Production companies
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Box office
- Budget
- $10,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $356,582
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $184,536
- Aug 11, 2013
- Gross worldwide
- $1,585,583
- Runtime1 hour 33 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1