Stars: Woody Harrelson, Courtney Love, Edward Norton

Director: Milos Forman

Summary: The true-life story of a school drop-out who produces a porn magazine, pushing American tolerance to the limit. His life, however, encompasses love and loss, madness and healing, and loads of fun...

Beautifully directed by Czech emigre Milos Forman, this insightful work ironically exposes the strange and controversial life of Larry Flynt (Woody Harrelson), the publisher of the ultra-raunchy porn magazine Hustler. The film chronicles three events that Flynt is best known for: a Supreme Court battle that made him an unlikely poster boy for the First Amendment; an assassination attempt that rendered him paralyzed from the waist down; and his battles with Moral Majority leader Jerry Falwell. The film also provides insight into lesser-known areas of Flynt's life, particularly his relationship with soulmate Althea Leasure (played shamelessly by rocker Courtney Love), a sleazy, drug-addicted wildcat who was wholly devoted to Flynt. Leasure provided the balance that Flynt needed in his incredible life up until her AIDS-related death in 1987. The screenplay by Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski proves to be a powerful parable that bravely explores the intricacies of freedom of speech.

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Directed by Milos Forman, The People vs. Larry Flyntis the fictionalised, but true, story of how smut-peddler Larry Flynt--the poor man's redneck Hugh Hefner--ended up appealing a libel case (brought by televangelist Jerry Falwell) to the US Supreme Court and winning a major legal victory that affected all Americans. It transpires that the US Constitution and the Bill of Rights--as brought to life in this splendidly quirky and alternately reverent and irreverent comedy--ensures everyone's freedom by protecting a whole range of expression, from the banal to the outrageous. Scripted by the writers of Ed Wood(another affectionately twisted biography of a disreputably eccentric entertainment figure), The People vs. Larry Flyntapplies a similar sort of exaggerated and telescoped editorial-cartoon sensibility to the wild life and times of Hustlerskin-magazine publisher Larry Flynt. There are terrific performances by Woody Harrelson as Flynt, grunge-star-turned-glamour-puss Courtney Love as his wife Althea and Edward Norton as their lawyer (a composite character). --Jim Emerson

Aspect Ratio:	2.35 Wide Screen
Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Special Features:	Interactive Menu
Subtitles:	Arabic, Czech, English, Hindi, Hungarian, Polish, Russian
Year:	1996
Release Date:	August 10, 1998
Runtime:	124 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	C D R 94760
Keywords:	General, People, Wide, Screen, Larry, Drama, Vs, Flynt
Genre:	Drama