The People vs. Larry Flynt
Larry Flynt is the obnoxious, but indomitable publisher of Hustler magazine. The film recounts his struggle to make an honest living publishing his porn magazine and how it changes into a battle to protect the freedom of speech for all people.
17 October 1959, Québec City, Québec, Canada
20 April 1964, New York City, New York, USA
5 August 1965, New York City, New York, USA
6 December 1954, New York City, New York, USA
June 30, 2008
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.
December 06, 2005
I sincerely hope The People Versus Larry Flynt goes all the way and wins the Academy Award.
June 30, 2008
One of the truly bizarre careers in recent American cultural life provides the source of tart and tasty amusement in The People vs. Larry Flynt.
July 08, 2005
Great.
June 30, 2008
We're really celebrating Hollywood's freedom to create biographies of anyone, no matter how high or low on the social ladder, and still come up with the same banal characteristics, messages and conclusions.
June 30, 2008
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.
February 09, 2006
The exploitative misogyny of Flynt's output is never examined, the prurient hypocrisy and intolerance of his persecutors seriously overplayed, plus Larry and Althea's odd romance lacks bittersweet conviction.
June 30, 2008
Woody Harrelson plays Flynt with energy, and Courtney Love does at least as well as his wife.
May 26, 2006
The movie is a lot of fun for long stretches.
April 09, 2005
The screenplay, by Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski, is rich in detail and dialogue.
June 30, 2008
An exultant comedy of American repression and revolt.
September 15, 2005
Funny, fascinating, and maybe just a little unsettling.
