The People vs. Larry Flynt 1996

type: Movie

language: English

duration: 130 min

genre: drama

theme: biographical drama

director: Miloš Forman

Score: 7 / 10

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 club in Cincinnati. With profits down, Flynt decides to publish a newsletter for the club, the first Hustler magazine, with nude pictures of women working at the club. The newsletter soon becomes a full-fledged magazine, but sales are weak. After Hustler publishes nude pictures of former first lady Jackie Kennedy Onassis in 1972, sales take off.

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author	Larry Karaszewski Scott Alexander
award	European Film Academy Achievement in World Cinema Award Golden Bear Golden Globe Award for Best Director Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay Satellite Award for Best Original Screenplay
contentLocation	California Kentucky
director	Miloš Forman
editor	Christopher Tellefsen
events	incest
genre	drama
keywords	addict aid alan isaacman althea flynt althea leasure american flag anti-pornography beverly hills bullet wound catholic school cincinnati copyright infringement court case drown drug use first lady hiv hustler hustler magazine v. falwell id jackie kennedy jackie kennedy onassis jerry falwell jimmy carter john delorean joseph paul franklin libel man with a rifle moonshine paralyze psychiatric ward pulitzer prize ruth carter stapleton sexual encounter spit supreme court supreme court of the united states
musicBy	Thomas Newman
nomination	Academy Award for Best Actor Academy Award for Best Director
producer	Janet Yang Oliver Stone
productionCompany	Columbia Pictures Phoenix Pictures
publisher	Sony Pictures Releasing
recordedAt	Los Angeles
theme	biographical drama legal lgbt-related