The People vs. Larry Flynt
The People vs. Larry Flynt is a 1996 American biographical drama film directed by Miloš Forman, chronicling the rise of pornographer Larry Flynt and his subsequent clash with religious institutions and the law. It stars Woody Harrelson, Courtney Love as his wife Althea, and Edward Norton as his attorney Alan Isaacman. The screenplay, written by Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski, spans about 35 years of Flynt's life, from his impoverished upbringing in Kentucky to his court battle with Reverend Jerry Falwell, and is based in part on the U.S. Supreme Court case Hustler Magazine v. Falwell.
Plot
In 1952, 10-year-old Larry Flynt is selling moonshine in Kentucky. Twenty years later, Flynt and his younger brother, Jimmy, run the Hustler Go-Go, a struggling strip club in Cincinnati. In a bid to improve his business, Flynt decides to publish a newsletter for the club featuring nude photos of his strippers, which he names Hustler. The newsletter soon becomes a full-fledged magazine, but sales are weak. After Hustler publishes photos of former first lady Jackie Kennedy Onassis sunbathing nude in 1972, it becomes a national sensation, and Larry decides to focus on it full-time.
Awards
Cast
- Aurélia Thierrée
- Brett Harrelson
- Burt Neuborne
- Cody Block
- Courtney Love
- Crispin Glover
- D'Army Bailey
- Donna Hanover
- Edward Norton
- James Carville
- James Cromwell
- Jan Tříska
- Larry Flynt
- Mike Pniewski
- Miles Chapin
- Neill Calabro
- Norm Macdonald
- Oliver Reed
- Richard Paul
- Ryan Post
- Scott William Winters
- Vincent Schiavelli
- Woody Harrelson