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Sex: The Annabel Chong Story
Strand Releasing


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MPAA RATING: Not rated

Starring Annabel Chong, Seymore Butts, Al Goldstein, and Ron Jeremy

This provocative documentary examines the motivations of porn star Annabel Chong, the woman who engaged in "the world's largest gang bang."

GENRE(S):	Documentary
DIRECTED BY:	Gough Lewis
RELEASE DATE:	DVD: December 3, 2002 Video: December 3, 2002 Theatrical: February 11, 2000
RUNNING TIME:	86 minutes, Color
ORIGIN:	USA

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Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman

Does all it can not to dehumanize Chong.

TV Guide Maitland McDonagh

You come away from the film wishing her the best, but fearing the worst.

Baltimore Sun Chris Kaltenbach

For all Quek's insistence that she was seeking to ennoble women by helping them gain control over their sexuality, Lewis' film shows that all Quek really wanted was be famous.

The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Liam Lacey

The most disturbing aspect of the movie is not the sex scenes (shot from the waist up) but her face, especially in her porn-star persona: a frozen little smiling mask that suggests a paradoxically intense vacancy.

The New York Times Lawrence Van Gelder

Sheds heat but insufficient light.

Village Voice Jessica Winter

Quek is compelling not for her ideas but the tangled path by which she came to them.

New York Post Hannah Brown

What could have been an intriguing look at a bizarre and complex woman plays like just another cog in the Annabel Chong publicity machine.

Austin Chronicle Marjorie Baumgarten

Reeks of a filmmaker who latched on to sure-fire subject matter, but then became lost once his character morphed into a person.

Film.com Henry Cabot Beck

A largely unenlightening work.

San Francisco Examiner Wesley Morris

When Annabel Chong sits in front of Gough Lewis' camera and complains about her need to have one of those normal everyday lives, you want to tell her that having intercourse on camera with more than 200 men is probably not the way to get to normal.

San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle

Has many grotesque sex scenes, interspersed with sights of Chong rambling in a dissociated way as she sits in her squalid apartment.

New York Daily News Jami Bernard

Never gets at what makes Quek tick.

LA Weekly Manohla Dargis

Now that's exploitation.

Chicago Reader Jonathan Rosenbaum

Vacuous filmmaking of a very familiar kind.