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I would guess that the audience for 1975's INSERTS must be comparatively small. Especially in light of another certain film Richard Dreyfuss made the same year. But the actor has long championed his work in writer/director John Byrum's highly theatrical piece of cinema as some of his best. He even participated in an appeal against the Motion Picture Association of America when the film, a major studio production, was given the dreaded X-rating. In the '90s, the rating was changed to the equally dreaded NC-17. Warranted? I believe so. Here's a perfect case study of how when one examines pornography, the study itself must necessarily be pornographic. Well, maybe slightly. Definitions vary among us. INSERTS unfolds in the early 1930s in the Hollywood mansion of a once highly lauded film director who hasn't kept with the times, and has fallen to the margins. He is identified only as "Boy Wonder", especially ironic...
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