Inside Deep Throat

Offbeat documentary filmmakers Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato dissect the history and legend of perhaps the best known and most profitable pornographic movies ever made, the taboo-busting, precedent-setting Deep Throat (1972). Producer Brian Grazier initially imagined a documentary about Deep Throat star Linda Lovelace, but apparently found her sad story lacking in the third-act redemption department. The big-picture story of the movie itself, by contrast, was a gold mine of giddy highs, stygian lows and colorful dramatis personae. Clown-prince of porn Harry Reems, who naively imagined the movie's notoriety would help jump-start a mainstream acting car...