Rating: NR
Genre:
Drama
Release Date: 02/06/2001
SubTitles: English
Dubbed: English
Sound: DS
Run Time: 115 Minutes
Flags: Not For Children, Adult Language, Sexual Situations, Drug Content
Distributor/Studio: Showtime Entertainment
Having created an empire on girly shows and skin flicks,
Jim Mitchell and
Artie Mitchell achieved mainstream success with
Behind the Green Door (1972), one of only a handful of hardcore porn movies to do so. Brothers
Emilio Estevez and
Charlie Sheen star in the film about the life and troubled times of porn's dynamic duo. Opening with the 1991 fratricidal murder of Artie (
Sheen) at the hands of Jim (
Estevez, who also directs), the film flashes back to their father lecturing them on the importance of family. In 1967, while studying film at San Francisco State, Jim's professor (
Peter Bogdanovich) upbraids him for including numerous leering shots of half-naked women in his student works. Soon Jim along with his brother, fresh out of the Army, starts a smut studio in an old warehouse. Their business takes off, and in no time they are being harassed by the police for obscenity. Along the way, the two hire former Ivory Snow model
Marilyn Chambers, get married, and snort half of the cocaine in Bolivia. After the fleeting success of
Green Door, their lives spiral into a drug-addled hell. Jim eventually bottoms out, but Artie, wracked by a profound inferiority complex, slides into cocaine dementia and begins to threaten Jim's family. Things eventually boil over, culminating in that bloody night in 1991. This film was screened at the 2000
Sundance Film Festival.
~ Jonathan Crow, All Movie Guide
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