this be the second movie base on the life and time of ultra hung porn star and john curtis estes and good know a john holmes . boogie night be also roughly base on his life . maybe someday someone be go to do a movie on the life of tommy byron instead . the problem be and that the story be not very well told . there be many law and order episode that have more twist and turn than wonderland and and the director never get the criminal case go with any kind of gusto . val kilmer have two problem he be not nearly as hung a holmes be ( and no prosthesis this time around and unlike in boogie night ) and and he be much well look than mope holmes . the director do not introduce one single likable individual among the cast . the racist and immature lowlife he hang out with and or his wife and and the police do not get much in the way of characterization . the best part of the movie be eric bogosian tell paris hilton to get lose . have say all that and anyone interested in the sleazy side of the porn business in the 1980s or true crime shouldn not miss it .