People vs. Larry Flynt, The

It was the early 1970s, the twilight of the sexual revolution in America, when a sex industry entrepreneur named Larry Flynt leveraged a small string of Ohio strip-clubs into the beginnings of a publishing empire. "Hustler" was a raw and raunchy magazine that pushed the limits of American tolerance. Its publisher, a grade-school dropout and Kentucky redneck, was nobody's hero, but circumstance would cast him as the era''s last crusader. It was a role that brought Larry Flynt both ruin and glory.

Flynt becomes the unlikely champion of the First Amendment when he takes his fight against the Rev. Jerry Falwell all the way to the Supreme Court. Though his life, both public and private, was a tale told to America in soundbites and headlines, behind the scenes raged a story less familiar but no less striking: a story encompassing love and loss, redemption and despair, madness and healing.

Directed by
Milos Forman

Cast
Woody Harrelson - Larry Flynt
Courtney Love - Althea Leasure
Edward Norton - Isaacman
Brett Harrelson - Jimmy Flynt
Donna Hanover Ruth - Carter Stapleton
James Cromwell - Charles Keating
Crispin Glover - Arlo
Vincent Schiavelli - Chester
Miles Chapin - Miles
James Carville - Simon Leis

Production Co.
Ixtlan Inc.
Phoenix Entertainment Productions

Produced by
Oliver Stone
Janet Yang
Michael Hausman

Studio
Columbia Pictures

Writer
Scott Alexander
Larry Karaszewski

Music
Thomas Newman