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Key Information
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| Directors: |
Milos Forman |
| Stars: |
Courtney Love |
| Actors: |
Miles Chapin |
| Genre: |
Dramas |
| Subgenre: |
Recommended · Law/Lawyers · Biography · Racy · Social Issues · Rags To Riches · Substance Abuse · Physically Impaired · Essential Cinema |
| MPAA Rating: |
R (MPAA) |
| Available Formats: |
DVD: Keep Case; Closed Caption; Subtitled French and Spanish |
| UPC: |
043396824591 |
| Release Date: |
1996 |
| Running Time: |
2hr 10min |
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Languages
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| Original Language: |
English |
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DVD Editions
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Format: DVD: Jewel Case, 2hr 10min Release Company: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (November 11, 1997) UPC: 043396824553 |
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VHS Editions
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Format: VHS: Closed Captioned; Subtitled Spanish Version, 2hr 10min Release Company: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (June 03, 1997) UPC: 043396824577 |
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Credits
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| Screenwriter: |
Larry Karaszewski |
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Professional Reviews
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(01/10/1997, Owen Gleiberman): "...An exultant comedy of American repression and revolt....A great, liberating movie..." |
| More Information |
| Details: |
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 ... |
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