- published: 15 Mar 2011
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Sharon Mitchell is an American sexologist and former pornographic film actor. In 1998, she founded the Adult Industry Medical Health Care Foundation (AIM), which tested over 1,000 adult film performers per month before a 2011 information leak led to a lawsuit and the clinic's closure.
Mitchell was adopted into a single-child family, raised Catholic, and briefly married at age 17 before she was an Off-Broadway actress and dancer who claims to have toured with the Martha Graham Dance Company. Then, in the mid-1970s, she became an adult actress.
During her 20-year career in adult films, she appeared in over 600 movies and directed 29 movies. During her years in the industry, Mitchell admits to being a heroin addict for sixteen of them. Mitchell also contracted herpes, chlamydia, hepatitis, and trichomoniasis. Mitchell worked with Golden Age production companies such as AVC, Caballero Home Video, Essex Video, Gourmet Video Collection, Leisure Time Entertainment, VCA Pictures, VCX, and the Zane Entertainment Group as well as contemporary studios such as Vivid Entertainment. Roughly a quarter of her appearances were non-sex roles.
Actors: Gill Holland (producer), Melissa Leo (actress), Mark Duplass (actor), Cheryl Cowan (miscellaneous crew), Peter Golub (composer), Andy Spletzer (miscellaneous crew), Elizabeth Heile (miscellaneous crew), Joy Saez (miscellaneous crew), Denise Gibbs (miscellaneous crew), Emanuel Michael (producer), Davie-Blue (actress), Stu Pollard (producer), Thomas Woodrow (producer), Linas Phillips (actor), Jennifer Lee (editor),
Plot: Craig Johnson's poised and poignant first feature follows Sam (Mark Duplass), an, unbeknownst to him, washed-up rocker in the early stages of haggard. Jobless and apartment-less, he crashes with his aunt (a compassionate Melissa Leo) as a last resort and becomes reluctant camping-trip chaperone to her teenage son and a pal. That the three males are on par, maturity-wise, makes for engaging ensemble juvenilia. But in the stirring Pacific Northwest wilderness a surprising discovery turns dire -- and the distance from boy to man must be covered overnight. Duplass's ballsy and at times balls-out performance is a winner, particularly when Sam at long last takes stock of himself: it ain't pretty.
Keywords: coming-of-ageActors: Michael Morrison (director), Sean Michaels (actor), Jake Steed (actor), Sharon Kane (actress), Sharon Mitchell (actress), Ashley Nicole (actress), T.T. Boy (actor), Dominique Simone (actress), Sandra Scream (actress),
Genres: Adult,