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The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996) | User Rating
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Original title: People vs. Larry Flynt, The
Release Date
• USA: Dec 25, 1996
DVD Release Date
• R1: Dec 9, 1997
MPAA Rating
Rated R for strong sexual material, nudity, language and drug use.
Running Time
2 hours, 9 minutes
Country Canada, USA
Production Companies
Columbia Pictures Corporation, Filmhaus, Illusion Entertainment, Ixtlan Corporation, Phoenix Pictures
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Other Titles
• The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996)
• Larry Flynt
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Genre: Drama, Comedy, Biography, Law, Racy, Society, Black Comedy, Courtroom, Drugs, Satire, Marriage, Religion, Love, Culture Clash, Prison
Tagline: You may not like what he does, but are you prepared to give up his right to do it?
Plot: In THE PEOPLE VS. LARRY FLYNT, Milos Forman expertly directs the viewer's sympathy toward Larry Flynt (Woody Harrelson in a superb performance): smut peddler, misogynist, and Editor in Chief of the infamous Hustler magazine. Born in the back woods of Appalachia, the young Flynt--in an opening scene that immediately grabs and amuses--is seen selling moonshine as a child to alcoholic hermits. Flash forward to the 1960s, and he's running a go-go club where he meets the wild (and strangely loveable) Althea Leasure (Courtney Love) who becomes his soul mate and wife. Life is not as sweet as it first seems for the porn king who finds a massive readership for his magazine (the first to show crotch shots). He soon finds himself in the middle of several Supreme Court law suits, and also as an assassin's target. While Flynt's various outrageous meetings with self-righteous Reverend Jerry Falwell (Richard Paul) and devout Christian Ruth Carter Stapleton (President Jimmy Carter's sister, played by Rudolph Giuliani's ex-wife Donna Hanover) are hilarious and smartly pointed, it is perhaps the touching, and ultimately tragic, love story between him and Althea that make him very human, and very interesting to watch.
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Miloš Forman
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Amadeus, Man on the Moon |
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 | Crispin Glover
Back to the Future, Charlie's Angels, What's Eating Gilbert Grape |
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From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money, Strangeland, A Mom for Christmas | | |
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Thomas Newman
The Shawshank Redemption, American Beauty, The Green Mile |
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