You expect stories about porn stars to be sordid, but sweet Jesus, this one's positively Sadean.

He just had a huge dick and he could fuck.' It reads like an epitaph. Fortunately, Paley doesn't try very hard to buttress Anderson's line of argument mostly, the film sticks to journalist Mike Sager's take on Holmes: 'He wasn't good looking, he wasn't smart, he wasn't brave. The writer-director of that 1997 drama, Paul Thomas Anderson, admits as much, and appears as a commentator in Wadd, telling us that Holmes actually wasn't a bad actor?a least, not compared to some of the people he shared the screen with. In fact, it might as well be packaged as a supplement on future DVDs of Boogie Nights, which was largely inspired by Holmes anyway. It'll be sweet relief to the bawdy-minded, and catnip to those who are fascinated by the history of American porn.

Cass Paley's entertaining documentary has been kicking around the festival circuit for a couple of years now, and arrives in theaters at just the right point in the Oscar-baiting movie season. The weird, sad, frequently strange life of America's first male porn superstar is chronicled in Wadd. Holmes had a special talent that measured 13.5 inches, and people are still talking about it.

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