The People Vs. Larry Flynt (Special Edition) R
You may not like what he does, but are you prepared to give up his right to do it?
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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 2 hours, 9 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: December 7, 2010
- Originally Released: 1996
- Label: Image Entertainment
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Woody Harrelson, Courtney Love & Edward Norton | |
Performer: | Vincent Schiavelli, Donna Hanover & Miles Chapin | |
Featured: | Crispin Glover, James Cromwell, James Carville, Brett Harrelson & Richard Paul | |
Directed by | Milos Forman | |
Screenwriting by | Scott Alexander & Larry Karaszewski | |
Composition by | Thomas Newman | |
Produced by | Oliver Stone, Michael Hausman & Janet Yang | |
Director of Photography: | Philippe Rousselot |
Entertainment Reviews:
A brave, spectacularly entertaining -- and unexpectedly stirring -- account of Flynt's life that asks us to regard the publisher of Hustler magazine as an invaluable champion of our First Amendment freedoms.
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Newsweek
...An exultant comedy of American repression and revolt....A great, liberating movie...
Entertainment Weekly
Rating: A --
An exultant comedy of American repression and revolt.
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Entertainment Weekly
Rating: 3.5/4 --
Long after you've grown tired of his escapades, the scenes in which he and Althea support one another against the slings an arrows of outrageous fortune are touching and, ultimately, genuinely tragic.
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TV Guide
Rating: A- --
The screenplay, by Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski, is rich in detail and dialogue.
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Reeling Reviews
Rating: 3.5/4 --
Great.
sbs.is
...The liberatory strength of the film comes from Courtney Love's terrific, all-out performance as Flynt's wife...
Film Comment
Product Description:
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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