Rating: R
Genres: Adult Film TV & Radio
Theatrical Release: 11/30/2001(USA
Release Date: 03/25/2003
Dubbed: English
Sound: DD2
Run Time: 75 min
Flags: Strong Sexual Content
Distributor/Studio: New Video Group

In 1978, Ron Hyatt was a special education teacher who, like many people, dreamed of some day becoming an actor. One day, Ron's girlfriend sent a nude photo of him on a whim to Playgirl magazine, who published it as part of their "Boy Next Door" feature; before long, Ron was asked to appear in a hardcore pornographic movie, and thus was the beginning of the career of Ron Jeremy, one of biggest and least-likely male stars in the adult film industry. Short, pudgy, and possessing an excess of body hair, Jeremy hardly looks like anyone's idea of a sex-show stud, but Jeremy's charm, intelligence, self-effacing good humor, and professional attitude in a business where such focus is rare made him the best-known man in porn, starring in literally hundreds of adult films and eventually breaking through to bit parts and cameo roles in mainstream features. Porn Star: The Legend of Ron Jeremy is a feature- length documentary that offers an inside look at Ron Jeremy's life and career, including interviews with his friends, co-workers, and family; the film won the Audience Award for Best Documentary at the 2001 No Dance Film Festival.

~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

"I really want to do legitimate movies," Ron Jeremy says over and over throughout Porn Star: The Legend of Ron Jeremy until it's like a mantra. It's easy to see that the documentary is a thinly veiled last-ditch appeal to mainstream producers and directors to hire Jeremy for non-porn movies before he gets too old to make much of a career. But there's no denying he's had quite a career already -- 1,600 porn movies and counting! Director Scott J. Gill, whom it would not surprise us at all to find out was paid by Jeremy for making such a friendly film, as enlightening as it is, follows Jeremy on and off the set and uses testimonials from friends, family, and co-stars, as well as home movies, public appearances, and footage from some of his 1,600 X-rated films to illustrate Jeremy's career thus far. Longtime fans, and there are many, will be pleased to see that the star also shares some of his sexual secrets, although there are no "money shots" -- not even in the unrated version. The most revealing sequence involves Jeremy's industry-mandated monthly blood test, and the cameras wait with him at the clinic until a nurse arrives to give him an all clear. Never in his life could Jeremy act that nervous that convincingly -- he fears for his life, and that's why he wants to go legit as soon as possible.

~ Buzz McClain, All Movie Guide

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