This movie shares a title with two other recent movies - the 2004 movie about a guy who has a porn star move in next door, and a 2007 horror movie that I started watching, but was too difficult to watch.
So this kept showing up in a lot of my horror and teen comedy searches.
Like many documentaries, it's actually kind of depressing. But it does paint a picture that isn't as dramatic as Boogie Nights, but is more personally sad.
Stacy Valentine never got past most of her insecurities. But she has also learned to split her life into separate areas, and let certain things roll off her.
She has a good relationship with her parents. She wasn't mistreated as a child, but her ex-husband was a jerk… but it isn't too specific. She indicates that she was scared of him.
She has tricky difficulties with her personal relationships. These aren't easy to explain, since try to address these problems early, and claim that they ignore them. And then it turns out that they can't.
We get to see how her self-image issues affect her. She goes in for surgery twice during this movie, the first time involves mostly having a breast reduction done. The second time has her getting liposuction, and getting her lips done. Both of these scenes are exactly as clinical as you would expect.
Close to the end, there are two really dark moments right before she wins a French award. First, as she's taking photos with some fans, one guy tries to grab her. It flies by really quickly, but you can see the annoyance on her face, and she lifts her arms up and walks away. The other one is that she does some 'escorting' work while she's in France. It appears to be a single job, and she clearly is well paid for it, but seeing her talking afterward, it clearly is kind of distressing. She frames it as being upset that she has effectively cheated on her boyfriend, but something else seems off about it.
There's a lot of nudity, but it doesn't feel like it. It feels more like she's walking around in a costume most of the time.
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