Synopsis
The truth goes deeper than you think.
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.
2013 Directed by Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman
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.
Amanda Seyfried Peter Sarsgaard Hank Azaria Adam Brody James Franco Sharon Stone Wes Bentley Juno Temple Chloë Sevigny Eric Roberts Bobby Cannavale Robert Patrick Chris Noth Debi Mazar Lauren Fray Ron Pritchard Frank Clem Brian Gattas Cory Hardrict Peter Holden Sofia Karstens LisaGay Hamilton Don McManus Adam Tomei Greg Vrotsos Lou Richards Sandy Martin Nicole Andrews Soumaya Akaaboune Show All…
Peter Sarsgaard Boaz Davidson Avi Lerner John Thompson Trevor Short Danny Dimbort Heidi Jo Markel Amanda Seyfried Mark Gill Jim Young Merritt Johnson Laura Rister Jason Weinberg
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Amanda Seyfriend BLOWS audiences away with a DEEP performance!
Man, it must really SUCK to be in the porn industry!
There are some tragic moments that are pretty hard to SWALLOW!
I enjoyed this because I'm a SUCKER for docudramas!
*Hehehehe blowjobs*
this was disappointing but before I tackle that can I just say I am EXTREMELY SICK AND TIRED of men - on this site and in general - using "this was resoundingly anti-sex" as a critique of this film. that's not a critique, it's a fact. linda lovelace had an awful, exploitative, terrifying experience in the porn industry, as have literally thousands of other women, and you want the biopic of her life to be all about how, gee, that might've been a bit shit but hey porn is still universally ethically outstanding? give me a goddamn BREAK. i'm certainly not anti-sex &, as a logical extension of that, i'm not anti-sex work but god I am anti-idiocy & that particular…
tediously generic and virulently sex-negative portrait that's structured like a wikipedia page and about as compelling. is there no human experience that can't fit into the swift rise --> swifter fall --> redemption mold? and you're not doing your movie any favors by filling every role with a recognizable face... is a short snort of recognition worth crippling the (already feeble) authenticity of the drama? as bad as biopics get.
but hey, boobs. but be warned, they only lead to despair.
Lovelace, if the title didn’t already make it obvious, is the biopic of porn starlet Linda Lovelace who found mainstream success with her breakout role in Deep Throat. It’s a conventional story of innocence corrupted with a novel narrative structure that features two different accounts of the same events.
Directors, Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman, are no strangers to the movie biography having made the Allen Ginsberg biopic, Howl. Unfortunately, this follow-up is less successful as it skirts through Linda’s rise to fame and her relationship with her abusive husband. Even the film’s unique selling point, the dual perspectives, adds very little to the audience’s understanding of the person or the events.
The film’s first half is a breezy and…
I'm a sucker for docudramas about seventies films and the adult industry. This one leans pretty heavily on previous, superior examples like Boogie Nights and Star 80 but Seyfried's rich and charismatic portrayal of Lovelace is worth seeing and the filmmakers' choice to focus on LL's abusive relationship with scumbag Chuck Traynor (a passable Peter Sarsgaard) makes sense. I was still hoping for a more epic approach that would recognize Lovelace's later ordeals as media and feminist vultures used her for their own purposes; she couldn't catch a break.
Pretty good stuff. I didn't get all tingly, hear fireworks, or feel the rush of dams bursting but the ninety-minutes went down easy and I have no regrets.
With Lovelace, it seems Directors Rob Epstein & Jeffrey Friedman were looking to deep throat an Oscar. Every other scene in this stodgy biopic appears to be reaching for that prestigious Oscar clip. Had they balanced the inferior writing with the superior Boogie Nights style aesthetic, Lovelace could have made Seyfried's wig-wearing performance worth something.
Sadly, the film-makers choked long before the climax.
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I am not a fan of biopics. Mainly because most of them just aren't that interesting and because as a genre they more often than not seem to be the death of creativity, mostly producing run of the mill dramas. Lovelace is the perfect example of how mediocre the genre can be when the only thing it is set out to do is relate the story and not explore anything.
I struggle to believe that the story of the world's first real pornstar really is this boring. I knew next to nothing about the life of Linda Boreman (What's in a name?) and now I know everything. At least, I know the facts. The film…
"Lovelace," starring Amanda Seyfried as one-time adult film icon, Linda Lovelace, is a watchable but, ultimately, vanilla biopic. Seyfried turns in a sometimes-powerful performance, but that performance alone is not enough to elevate Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman's film.
Following Lovelace's rise from suburban young woman to adult film star, the narrative seems built on the same formula that guides most cinematic biographies of celebrities: would-be celeb rises from nothing, would-be celeb becomes a full-fledged celeb, and would-be celeb crashes but lives and learns from said crash. Mix in pornography, hangers-on, and superficial emotional and sexual politics with that formula, and "Lovelace" lumbers to life.
The narrative falls flat, but the film's strengths are enough to make the work respectable.…
This just reminds me of all the misunderstood women that have been demonized by the press and their industries. I’m glad she was able to find happiness.
Amanda is great, but the film is boring and I realise that maybe biopics like this are not for me.
A real middle of the road film for me. I didn’t hate it but didn’t love it, not one I’d ever watch again though.
Watched it just for Seyfried who is always good. I liked the split viewings, how it appeared and then how it actually was, that was cleverly done.
made me feel violently angry that’s all also love u Linda u and Patsy should’ve been together </3
wish it showed more MF LINDAAAA being a badass and shit idk but overall enjoyed nonetheless
first off i’m going to say that i think i’m in love with Amanda Seyfried, something about her makes me drawn to all the movies she’s in. second, i think it’s so overwhelming the shit women go through all at the hands of men. i liked how half way through the prospective changes & you get to see the truth behind everything shown in the first half. i would really like to read her book Ordeal.
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