Lovelace
The film starring Amanda Seyfried, James Franco, Peter Sarsgaard is directed by Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman. It is based on a true story about Linda is a beautiful and sexy girl. She passes through many challenges and chooses a special way to become the pornstar.
21 December 1935, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
13 August 1964, Queens, New York City, New York, USA
9 November 1979, Chicago, Illinois, USA
6 August 1966, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
29 May 1903, Eltham, Woolwich [now in Greenwich], London, England, UK
8 November 1959, San Diego, California, USA
November 30, 2013
Other performances may be more gripping in the moment, but the core of relatable vulnerability and flawed humanity Seyfried brings lends the film a lasting resonance.
August 12, 2013
Unfortunately, most of Lovelace is more generic and familiar, right down to the too-neat happy ending.
September 02, 2013
Seyfried, with her huge features crowding her small face, looks like Alice in a very strange Wonderland. But whatever possibilities she may have as an actress are eradicated by the filmmakers ...
June 27, 2014
Ironically, even a movie about Linda Lovelace's rather sad life uses her more for her body than her character.
August 16, 2013
"Lovelace" becomes too distracted by industry politics and the cultural context of the film's release to provide more than a snapshot of her life either before or after she stepped in front of a camera.
April 05, 2014
Amanda Seyfried is a game performer, and the Linda-like freckles sprayed across her cheeks, which all and sundry in the film comment on, are fetching.
August 09, 2013
This drama from codirectors Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman is so respectful of 70s porn sensation Linda Lovelace that instead of humanizing the Deep Throat star, it reduces her to one dimension: victim.
February 01, 2014
Amanda Seyfried acts out of her skin.
August 14, 2013
Lovelace bids to whip up hot indignation about an outrage four decades old. Instead, it provokes dismay.
December 06, 2013
I understand that movies based on true stories take plenty of liberties, but if those liberties can be blown apart with a five-minute visit to Wikipedia, they went too far.
May 10, 2016
Lovelace isn't a catalyst; it's just another unchallenging fantasy.
August 21, 2013
Linda's feelings are rarely revealed: that's left to the gloomy final act, which feels more like a guilt-inducing postscript than a genuine reveal.
