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I finally saw this today. I know one of the writers who consulted on this movie, Eric Danville. What a fantastic cast for such a mediocre movie. I didn't even recognize Sharon Stone as Linda's mother. I love movies about the Golden Age of porn, but this wasn't all that well made really.
The fact that they showed many of the same scenes over again from a slightly different perspective halfway through the movie reminds me of that classic episode of "All In The Family" where they show the events from Archie Bunker's racist p.o.v., Meathead's liberal p.o.v. and finally Edith's neutral point of view, but done without making it obvious that was what was happening and without the cleverness.
They left out a lot of interesting stuff about Linda, most notably the bestiality movie and the softcore sequel she made
to Deep Throat. I also thought that James Franco was mis-cast as Hugh Hefner, being a decade too young for the part to play Hefner in 1972. Oddly, Hef is one of the only people still alive who is portrayed in this movie. Some of the supposed South Florida scenes were also too obviously shot in California, based on the vegetation, the street number painted on the curb and the length of the house number as well. Sarah Jessica Parker's part as Gloria Steinem was also cut out of the movie despite remaining on some of the promotional artwork I saw. Hank Azaria's curly hairpiece to portray Gerard Damiano was also really fake looking.
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