"Lovelace" is a film that comes bifurcated, with a big red line down the middle separating its two acts into "The Dream" and "The Bummer."

In the first act we get the breezy story of Linda Lovelace, star of the 1972 mainstream porn blockbuster "Deep Throat," the proverbial girl-next-door with average looks and unique sexual prowess who went from unknown to celebrity overnight, becoming the poster girl for the sexual revolution, a "flower" who became "free" by opening up and learning to enjoy sex.

Act two is the story of Linda Boreman, the naive teen who married the wrong guy and was bullied and beaten into pursuing a porn career as Linda Lovelace, of whose pain and fear the world knew nothing as it enjoyed her hardcore performance on-screen. "Deep Throat," she tells us, was her being raped in front of the camera.