Please don't spend money on this.

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

Probably everyone who has progressed from cell division as the reproductive means of choice has some interest in porn, but if yours runs a little deeper then the "Annabel Chong Story" is a very worthwhile documentary to watch, offering a truthful glimpse behind the scenes. And that's pretty much all there is to say about it.To dispel a few popular notions about this documentary, it's not exploitative other than of Grace Quek's (that's Annabel Chong's real name) exhibitionism save possibly her parents, it doesn't purport to chronicle all minutiae of human sexuality, pornography is probably not the most wholesome business to be and in and this fact can not reasonably be blamed on the documentary (don't kill the messenger), film maker Gough Lewis repudiates the fact that he and Quek were a couple at the beginning of this movie for the patent reason that he wanted to make a movie about Quek and not about their relationship, Quek is neither centerfoldish-statuesque nor is she phenomenally ugly with the "the most crooked teeth ever", if you think her views are bizarre then you have obviously enjoyed the privilege of blissful ignorance of the field of womens' / gender studies and, unsurprisingly, Grace might not be the wholesome waif that you can exchange coy glances over glasses of iced tea at the country fair with. In fact, she probably is a bit of a whore, bless her little heart.In approaching this movie please note that it is a documentary and not a sequel from Playboy's Girl Next Door video franchise, thank you.

Annabel Chong gang-banged her way to the top of the porn industry by having sex with 251 guys in 10 hours. Did she do it to make a feminist statement, for the money, or because she simply enjoyed the act itself? The film explores all the possibilities and more.This documentary is more about the person behind the act other than the actual act itself. Annabel is quite an interesting character. At times she comes across as highly intelligent, and other times she appears to be highly sensitive, fragile, and self-destructive.The documentary is presented through a serious of interviews and outtakes, some of which can be pretty disturbing.The parts in which Annabel demonstrates her techniques for self mutilation, as well as her mother in Singapore discovering what her her daughter has been doing in America for a living are particularly gut-wrenching.A very intriguing look at a this multi-faceted / multi-dimensional character and woman.Recommended!

Gough Lewis' 'documentary' of Grace Quek aka Annabel Chong's curious route into seemingly willing participant of pornographic films (the most notorious being the 251-man gang bang captured on video) is truly sickening in the level of exploitation going on - both of Chong herself and of the audience who may be drawn to Lewis' film.Chong, a self-hating 'sexology' student, argued that her pornographic rituals stemmed from a need to prove the power of the woman. Or something. Her arguments seemed seriously flawed as she veered from damaged young woman to giggling porn babe. The film is disturbing - even more so when it uses the gang-bang (which took ten hours) as a framing device for the rest of the proceedings.A very weird and unsettling eighty minutes.

I think the word weird isn't out of place in a review of this particular film, although the film itself is not exactly weird, or wasn't intended to be, the personality of it's subject is more than a little erratic.Her personality and certainly the viewers perception of her does change throughout the documentary, she goes from confidant and intelligent (and you can't help but respect her this) she seems to know what she's doing and what she wants, but as the film progresses she becomes this confused, unstable and quite pathetic individual, who more than anything seeks her mother's respect and approval, but really doesn't want to work for it. The film is definately intriguing, but not as a look at the world of porn, for the industry itself isn't the focus of this film, it focuses mainly on just one of it's members, Grace Quek aka Annabel Chong Recomended viewing