The People vs. Larry Flynt R

You may not like what he does, but are you prepared to give up his right to do it?
The People vs. Larry Flynt
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  • 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

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Rating: 4/5 -- I sincerely hope The People Versus Larry Flynt goes all the way and wins the Academy Award. Full Review
Film Threat
Dec 6, 2005
...Love proves she is not a rock star pretending to act, but a true actress, and Harrelson matches her with his portrait of a man who has one thing on his mind...
Chicago Sun-Times
Dec 27, 1996
...The liberatory strength of the film comes from Courtney Love's terrific, all-out performance as Flynt's wife...
Film Comment
Nov 1, 1996
Rating: A -- An exultant comedy of American repression and revolt. Full Review
Entertainment Weekly
Jun 30, 2008
It's been a long, dumb spell, but The People vs. Larry Flynt makes it OK to take your brain to the movies again. Full Review
Wall Street Journal
Oct 18, 2008
...Woody Harrelson is manic and magnetic as Flynt...
Total Film
Aug 1, 2003
Rating: 3.5/4 -- Great.
sbs.is
Jul 8, 2005

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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