| Release Date: | Jan 1992 |
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| Genres: | Documentary / Biography |
| Runtime: | 91 min |
| Cast: | Hugh M. Hefner (Himself), Barbi Benton (Herself) Monique St. Pierre (Herself) Dorothy Stratten (Herself (archive footage)) Michelle Urry (Herself) Susan Brownmiller (Herself) Keith Hefner (Himself) James Coburn (Himself - Host) Spiro Agnew (Himself (archive footage)) Lenny Bruce (Himself (archive footage)) William F. Buckley (Himself) Tony Curtis (Himself) Sammy Davis Jr. (Himself (archive footage)) Robert Dornan (Himself (archive footage)) Jules Feiffer (Himself) Dizzy Gillespie (Himself (archive footage)) Dick Gregory (Himself) Alex Haley (Himself) Leroy C. Hodapp (Himself) Jack Jones (Himself) Roman Polanski (Himself (archive footage)) Mike Wallace (Himself) Richard Nixon (Himself (archive footage)) |
Early in the 1990s, Hefner and others are interviewed on camera about Hefner's childhood and youth, the beginnings of Playboy and its later empire, what those enterprises meant to society, troubles with pundits, censors, and the government, and two crises within Hefner's world, the arrest and prosecution of a close associate and the murder of a model. Susan Brownmiller provides the basic critique of Hefner's businesses (women are objects); Hefner says he wanted to break repression, question traditional values, and present the healthy, wholesome, and real eroticism of the girl next door. By 1992, Hefner is extolling the virtues of marriage, children, and family life.
