Fresh
An exultant comedy of American repression and revolt.
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly
The People vs. Larry Flynt
You may not like what he does, but are you prepared to give up his right to do it?
1996 · 2h 10m · R
Drama
Directed by
Miloš Forman
Overview
Larry Flynt is the hedonistically obnoxious, but indomitable, publisher of Hustler magazine. The film recounts his struggle to make an honest living publishing his girlie magazine and how it changes into a battle to protect the freedom of speech for all people.
Director and cast
- Miloš Forman Director
- Woody Harrelson as Larry Flynt
- Courtney Love as Althea Leasure
- Edward Norton as Alan Isaacman
- Brett Harrelson as Jimmy Flynt
- Donna Hanover as Ruth Carter Stapleton
- James Cromwell as Charles Keating
- Crispin Glover as Arlo
- Vincent Schiavelli as Chester
- Miles Chapin as Miles
- James Carville as Simon Leis
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
88%
Tomatometer
Fresh
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.
David Ansen, Newsweek
Fresh
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.
Todd McCarthy, Variety
Fresh
Woody Harrelson plays Flynt with energy, and Courtney Love does at least as well as his wife.
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
Rotten
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.
Desson Thomson, Washington Post
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