"Lovelace" is a biopic on the 1970s porn superstar Linda Lovelace (real name: Linda Boreman), who rose to fame in "Deep Throat," the low-budget hardcore sex comedy that went on to gross something like $600 million. Its story is based almost entirely on "Ordeal," Boreman's 1980 account of her career in which she claims to have been forced by her abusive, pimp-like husband Chuck Traynor to do the film. Yet dig a little deeper into Boreman's life and it becomes clear the only proper way to film this story would be like Akira Kurosawa's "Rashomon," from several different angles: The truth is hazy and the story changes depending on who's telling it.

This much is known: Boreman's husband did introduce her to porn, and was controlling, most likely violent as well. But get past that and everything becomes murky. To take one example: In the film we see Amanda Seyfried as the older, anti-porn Boreman saying, "I spent exactly 17 days in the pornography industry," and she blames that entirely on Traynor. "Deep Throat," she says, was her being raped on screen.

But in real life she appeared in "Deep Throat Part II" and "Lovelace for President," both of which capitalized on her fame as a porn star, after she divorced Traynor. Also, she is quoted as saying in 1974, again after leaving Traynor, "I'm not going to sit around and say I'll never do another hardcore film because I was forced into 'Deep Throat.' I did it because I loved it. It was something I believed in, it was me, I was just playing myself." Indeed, Boreman had been cast for a softcore movie in 1976 but — in the midst of a period of heavy drug use — she suddenly "found God" and refused to do nude scenes.