Featured Actress: Joanne Boland - If you've ever seen the porn classics Behind the Green Door or Inside Marilyn Chambers, you can thank the Mitchell Brothers. This 2000 Showtime bio tells the story of the brothers who invented "porn with a story", discovered Marilyn Chambers, introduced live sex shows to San Francisco, took enough dope to kill a large whale, and pissed off the authorities so bad they were constantly in and out of jail.
The brothers entered the porn industry in the early 60's, and decided to do things differently. They made films that looked like Hollywood mainstream films, but with explicit sex. They bought an old theatre in San Francisco to show their films, and eventually turned it into a live sex club. They were constantly high on drugs, and for a while, were arrested every time they premiered a new movie.
Eventually, the drugs lead them on a downward spiral into bankruptcy, and finally the murder of Artie by Jim. Jim served three years of a six year sentence for manslaughter, and returned to running the business when he was released.
An interesting biography, with an excellent performance by real life brothers Charlie Sheen and Emilio Estevez as the Mitchell Brothers. Also good was Tracy Hutson, who made a very convincing Marilyn Chambers.
Not surprisingly, the film was released with an R rating, but the caps are from the unrated DVD. It contains only a minute more film than the R version, so apparently only a few seconds of the most explicit stuff was cut.
