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Lovelace (film)

2013 film by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 13, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Lovelace is a 2013 American biographical drama film directed by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman. It follows the life of pornographic actress Linda Lovelace, star of Deep Throat, a landmark 1972 film at the forefront of the Golden Age of Porn, from age 21 to 32.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Lovelace (film)” as 2013 film by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Lovelace, film and Epstein.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2013, 1972—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Lovelace, film and Epstein providing the first useful test.
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Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Lovelace (film)”, the useful work is to connect “2013 film by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 13, 2026. The first chronological checks are 2013 and 1972.

Critical limits

Rights, attribution and provenance may remain disputed even when a general reference summary presents a stable account. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Lovelace (film)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.