it not everyday that you get to meet and converse with a porn star and but that opportunity recently present itself . christine fugate documentary about award win adult video actress stacy ( baker ) valentine and the girl next door and be play at a nearby theater and the additional draw be represent come see stacy in the flesh ( well and not really . ) not only do ms. valentine and ms. fugate field an open and honest q and a session after the 82 minute movie and but my viewing partner win a movie poster ( for be a bleach blonde . ) that we later have stacy autograph . make a documentary be no walk in the park . documentarian fugate have an idea to delve into the inner working of a porn star and but search for two year before the ideal candidate emerge . then and for over two year and she dog stacy and follow her on again and off again romance with fellow porn star julian and interview her parent back in tulsa and oklahoma and talk to her various director on set all over the san fernando valley and witness stacy high and low from la vega to cannes and as well a operation to make her lip big and her breast small . the result . a very even hand and non judgmental and frank and and occasionally very funny portrait of a very pretty and almost guileless all american girl who want nothing more than to be a successful housewife . get her start when her now ex husband submit nude picture of stacy to gallery magazine and she parlay a follow up spread in hustler magazine into a trip to hollywood in early 1995 to make her mark in adult video . dozen of film later and she do just that . and she wouldn not change a thing . ( stacy film her last adult video in february and and be now sell a pair of female clothing line and good girl and bad girl . ) christine fugate get a lot a mileage from her credit card in financing this effort . she ( and her editor ) ably know how to fix up the business side of stacy ( grab a broom to sweep away ant from a pool side scene or gamely deal with artificial smoke that be choke her on the set ) and the human side of stacy ( share a very emotional and tearful moment with her mother or interrupt an in vehicle interview with a realistic you fuer and nice turn signal . ) . along the way and the audience be subject to some very disturbing penetration and and i be not talk about anything in anal professor and hillbilly honey and or cumming clean . very graphic and clinical scene of replace a large saline bag with a small one in stacy leave breast and the injection of collagen into her lip be not image for the squeamish and but be memorable and think provoke nonetheless . stacy describe look in the mirror and wondering who she have become . it a very good question . it interest to compare the girl next door with an early documentary about porn actress grace quek and sex represent the annabel chong story . i do not like the latter and and after see the former and i like the latter even less . not only be tgnd well edit and good film and but ms. fugate do a far more compelling job of portray peak and valley in her subject than do gough lewis in his sex . i can not recall any peak in sex . i would be remiss if i do not mention a very amusing scene involve stacy mother and stepfather outside their tulsa home . their conversation have the audience in stitch and help to make the girl next door a documentary well worth view .