'Lovelace' is a bio-pic of the legendary 1970's porn starlet of 'Deep Throat' fame, Linda Lovelace. Born Linda Susan Boreman in the Bronx in 1949, she had a child out of wedlock at age of 20, so her very Catholic family put the baby up for adaption and relocated to Flordia. It was there that Linda meet her first husband Chuck Traynor, a struggling local businessman who would get his wife into the porn industry, beat her and pimp her out. Linda would eventually escape from Traynor, divorce him, remarry, have a family, and become an anti pornography activist before dieing from injuries sustained in a car crash at age 53 in 2002.
Amanda Seyfried gives a sympathetic performance as Linda, naive at first, you feel for her she went through hell. Peter Sarsgaard plays Traynor, Chris Noth, Bobby Cannavle and Hank Azara play pornographers while an unrecognizable Sharon Stone plays Linda's mother (I didn't know it was her until the credits). The film is dispointingly slight, is edited a little oddly and is largely unpleasant to watch. It feels like a dirty TV movie, 'Blond' without the arty pretense. **
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