Orgasm Inc.
Your Pleasure Is Our Business
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 20 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: June 21, 2011
- Originally Released: 2009
- Label: First Run Features
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Directed by | Liz Canner | |
Composition by | Stephanie Olmanni, Alex Barnett & Don Glasgo | |
Director of Photography: | Liz Canner | |
Hosted by | Charletta, Leonore Tiefer, Kim Wallen, Ray Moynihan, Susan Bennett, Dr. Carol Queen & Liz Canner |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 4/5 --
By taking a playful approach to a deeply serious subject, [director Liz Canner] explores the link between female sexuality and corporate profits with a style that's as entertaining as it is revelatory.
New York Times
Rating: 2/4 --
Can best be described as a compelling mess.
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San Francisco Chronicle
Rating: B+ --
Canner gives us all the subtext that was missing from "Love and Other Drugs."
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Reeling Reviews
Rating: 3/4 --
This is a strident issue movie with the feel of a more objective portrayal.
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Slant Magazine
[A] comprehensive and surprisingly rousing advocacy doc....Canner balances an overview of the David-and-Goliath fight between industry giants and women's groups like The New View with more personal stories... -- Grade: B+
A.V. Club
Rating: 4/5 --
Canner's deft exposé also makes clear that some of the highest-profile "experts" are shills for Big Pharma, and that genital mutilation is thriving in the West, in the form of cosmetic surgery.
Los Angeles Times
Rating: B --
...may seem targeted at female audiences, but the film has a universal appeal with its slap at big pharmaceutical corporations that...turn healthy people into patients just to sell their drugs.
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Product Description:
When independent filmmaker Liz Canner landed an unusual assignment -- editing a stack of porn films into a "highlight reel" for a pharmaceutical company -- she found the inspiration for this project, a documentary on "female sexual dysfunction" and the business that has sprung up behind it. "Female sexual dysfunction" is roughly defined as a woman's lack of desire for sexual contact and/or her inability to have an orgasm, and after Viagra made treating male impotence into a growth industry, a number of pharmaceutical firms are working to formulate a similar drug for women. But is "female sexual dysfunction" a real medical condition' Research has determined that 70 percent of women don't regularly reach orgasm through intercourse (usually due to inattention by their partners), and a lack of enthusiasm for lovemaking can stem from anything from a bad day at work to a husband's bad breath. Are drug companies attempting to convince women they need treatment for a malady that doesn't actually exist' ORGASM, INC. takes a look at the disinformation that has been spread about female sexuality through the ages up to the present day, including a woman who collects antique vibrators and turn-of-the-century literature on "female hysteria," as well as behind-the-scenes footage of researchers attempting to formulate a female orgasm in pill form. ORGASM, INC. was an official selection at the 2009 Hot Docs International Film Festival.
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- UPC: 720229914673
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