- Release Date: 1996
- Runtime: 129 min
- Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
- Starring: Woody Harrelson, Courtney Love, Edward Norton, Brett Harrelson ... see all
- Director: Milos Forman
- Plot: 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... Read more
User Reviews
one bad actress ruined it all
Jun 14, 2008
cowboyup22112 - yahoo.com
Jun 14, 2008cowboyup22112 - yahoo.com
courtney love ruined this film for me because she is a horrible actress and everybody knows she murdered kurt cobain. so i am calling for a boycott of all things courtney love not includeing hustler mag.... Full review
10,000 B.C.
Mar 17, 2008
ccs29745 - yahoo.com
Mar 17, 2008ccs29745 - yahoo.com
10,000 B.C. is great I loved it I want to watch it again and again. I almost cried when she was dying! It was GREAT:)... Full review
Jobel's view on "People Vs. Larry Flynt"
Jun 29, 2007
jobeld79 - yahoo.com
Jun 29, 2007jobeld79 - yahoo.com
I rented this movie based on the synopsis, because of my male testosterone and my interest in the artistic value of female bodies. I am supporter of freedom of speech, and I think this movie touched on the subject quite bit.... Full review
An all around great movie
Dec 10, 2006
marriot4 - yahoo.com
Dec 10, 2006marriot4 - yahoo.com
This movie was surprisingly great. I have never been that impressed by Harrelson, but he was very good in this movie. Norton is great as usual. The movie itself is well written and portrays an unlikely free speech activist.... Full review
good
Apr 01, 2006
zkentlewis - yahoo.com
Apr 01, 2006zkentlewis - yahoo.com
good good good good good good good good good goodgood good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good goodgood good good good good good good good good goodgood good good good... Full review
Sex...yes please
Mar 17, 2006
iluvkurt_kurtmine - yahoo.com
Mar 17, 2006iluvkurt_kurtmine - yahoo.com
I think this movie is very American. Larry Flynt was not only a porn pervert, but a true american who protected our first Ammendment. He stands for everything that the way America should be. and the people who we look up... Full review
Excelletn
Jan 16, 2005
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Jan 16, 2005zincher - yahoo.com
Very good movie Very good movie Very good movie Very good movie Very good movie Very good movie Very good movie Very good movie Very good movie Very good movie Very good movie Very good movie Very good movie Very good... Full review
Great piece of work!!!
Jan 16, 2005
zimloverboy - yahoo.com
Jan 16, 2005zimloverboy - yahoo.com
I just fell in love with the character of Woody H. What a great actor he is! I never knew Courtney Love was such an awesome actress. In light of her recent brushes with the law, I had always tended to... Full review
The rise and fall of a (sex)god
Dec 06, 2004
Philip Van der Veken - imdb.com
Dec 06, 2004Philip Van der Veken - imdb.com
"The People vs. Larry Flynt" is already 8 years old, and the subject it talks about is even older, but it still hasn't lost anything of it's relevance. This isn't a movie about Larry Flynt, the porn king. It's more... Full review
Not Your Typical Patriot.
Jul 08, 2004
tfrizzell - imdb.com
Jul 08, 2004tfrizzell - imdb.com
Idealized biography of Hustler magazine mogul Larry Flynt (played superbly by Oscar nominee Woody Harrelson) which finally ends up focusing on his legal battles to publish his pornography via the free speech laws of this land. Along the way he... Full review
Critics Reviews
| May 16, 2003Slant Magazine
while Falwell, ostensibly the film's foe, is barely presented at all-he's just a benign sack of eye-rolling incorruptibility.....Unfortunately, the film they do their best to bring to life ends up as conventional as the Capra films it's obviously modeled after..... ... Full Review
| Feb 01, 1997Palo Alto Online
It is typical of the film's intellectual dishonesty....The only thing shocking about the movie is....Milos Forman lacked the courage to tell Flynt's story honestly..... ... Full Review
| Jan 17, 1997Entertainment Weekly
Woody Harrelson's audacious performance.... ... Full Review
| Dec 27, 1996Washington Post
blatant sexual scenes.... ... Full Review
| Dec 25, 1996Hartford Courant
Bisexual, easily bored, invariably jealous, Love's Althea and Woody Harrelson's shrewd, promiscuous Flynt are no Hallmark card, but the actors connect beautifully and make the couple's love for each other vivid and undeniable.
His chaotic story mirrors "The People vs. Larry Flynt" in being without conventional boundaries, a saga that could only happen in a country where, as Flynt himself puts it, "everybody gets their shot, even a pig.
... Full Review
News
The Hustler magazine boss sued his nephews' Flynt Media Group for using the family name to start a new porn enterprise without his permission, and now a Los Angeles judge has denied their request to dismiss the case. ... Full Article
Alicia likes to garden in the nude
mirror.co.uk –
2009-08-20
Alicia Silverstone has apparently admitted she likes to garden in the nude. The Clueless actress, an animal lover and strict vegetarian, revealed she likes tending to her plants with no clothes on, then leaping into the pool for a skinny... ... Full Article
Tabloid book publisher Michael Viner dies
yahoo.com –
2009-08-12
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - Michael Viner (VEE'-nuhr), who helped popularize audio books and published a line of tabloid tell-all books that included O.J. Simpson trial figure Faye Resnick and disgraced former Illinois Gov. ... Full Article
Hustler Produces Lindsay Lohan Porn Parody
gaywired.com –
2009-07-17
By Brodie Scott | Article Date: 7/17/2009 12:00 AM The Larry Flynt porn empire serves up a skin flick starring a Lohan look-a-like trysting with Ron Jeremy while a Samantha Ronson "doppelganger looks on," according to Hollywood.com . ... Full Article
On Thursday, a federal appeals court ruled that the magazine Hustler did not have any right to publish old nude pictures of the slain wife of wrestler Chris Benoit, Nancy. ... Full Article



