The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996)

Calificación de los usuarios:

7.2/10   

Director:

Milos Forman

Escritores (WGA):

Scott Alexander (written by) &
Larry Karaszewski (written by)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

25 diciembre 1996 (USA)

Género:

Biografía | Drama

Frase comercial:

You may not like what he does, but are you prepared to give up his right to do it?

Plot:

A partially idealized film of the controversial pornography publisher and how he became a defender of free speech for all people.

Plot Keywords:

Magazine | Hustler | Hustler Magazine | Pornography | Courtroom

Premios:

Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 20 wins & 9 nominations

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Unusual, audacious film

Reparto

Woody Harrelson	...	Larry Flynt
Courtney Love	...	Althea Leasure Flynt
Edward Norton	...	Alan 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
Richard Paul	...	Reverend Jerry Falwell
Burt Neuborne	...	Roy Grutman
Jan Triska	...	The Assassin
Cody Block	...	10-Year-Old Larry
Ryan Post	...	8-Year-Old Jimmy

También conocida como:

Larry Flynt (Canada: French title)
El escándalo de Larry Flynt (Spain) [es]
Larry Flint - El nombre del escándalo (Argentina) [es]
Larry Flint: El nombre del escándalo (Mexico) [es]

MPAA:

Rated R for strong sexual material, nudity, language and drug use.

Duración:

129 min

País:

Canada | USA

Idioma:

Inglés

Color:

Color

Relación de Aspecto:

2.35 : 1

Sonido:

SDDS | Dolby SR

Clasificación:

Canada:13+ (Quebec) | Canada:14 (Nova Scotia) | Canada:AA (Ontario) | Canada:R (Manitoba) | Iceland:16 | Argentina:16 | South Korea:18 | Philippines:R-18 | USA:R (certificate # 34339) | France:U | Australia:MA | Austria:12 | Chile:18 | Finland:K-16 | Germany:12 | Hong Kong:III | Italy:VM14 | Netherlands:16 | Peru:18 | Portugal:M/16 | Singapore:R(A) (cut) | Spain:18 | Sweden:15 | UK:18

Locaciones de Filmación:

Abandoned train station, Memphis, Tennessee, USA

Compañía:

Columbia Pictures Corporation

Trivialidades:

One scene involves Hustler's offer of $1000000 reward for bringing JFK's killers to justice. The father of actors Woody Harrelson and Brett Harrelson has long been suspected by conspiracy theorists of involvement in the assassination.

Errores:

Errores cometidos por los personajes (posiblemente errores deliberados por los cineastas): Isaacman tells of a cartoon about "an ass leading George Washington to the White House", which was drawn during the first presidential elections. However, George Washington was elected president in 1789, 3 years before construction on the White House begun. John Adams was the first executive resident.

Citas:

Larry Flynt: I got money, which gives me the power to shake up the system.

Conexiones de Película:

Referenced in Ellie Parker (2005)

Banda de Sonido:

Blessed Be the Name

Unusual, audacious film

As Larry Flynt is hardly the usual type of person you think of when you think of the word "hero," it's fitting that this biopic opts not for the standard approach, but to make an offbeat comedy(as writers Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski did in their screenplay for ED WOOD and the upcoming MAN ON THE MOON, about controversial comedian Andy Kaufman). You may not like him(and one of two faults I had with this film was I think the filmmakers lionized him a little too much), but certainly any society which calls itself free needs to make room for him. Harrelson does a good job in the title role, but the real force for me came from Courtney Love, in an astonishing performance as Flynt's wife, and Edward Norton, one of the best new talents, as Flynt's reluctant lawyer.

Besides that it does lionize Flynt a little too much, there is one problem I had, though. If you believe the film, all of Flynt's opposition came from right-wing blowhards like Charles Keating and Jerry Falwell. Certainly, they did have the most publicized tussles with him. But to ignore the problems he had with feminists makes it rather limited. I don't agree with Gloria Steinhem's contention that the film ignores his depraved side, but I think the film would have been more interesting if it had addressed the opposition he had from both the left and the right. Still, this is a terrific and important film to remind us what freedom really is.