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www.eonline.com - : Hollywood's ultimate ''screw you'' to conservative Republicans champions the X-rated American way--the pursuit of sex, drugs and the right to print pornography. Exploring the irreverent and tragic life of Hustler publisher Larry Flynt (Harrelson), this biopic focuses on Flynt’s loving relationship with his drug-addicted wife (Love) and his transformation from a strip-club entrepreneur to a born-again Christian, a wheelchair-bound cripple and a First Amendment defender. Director Forman and screenwriters Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski have made a continuously funny and outrageous film, while Love and Harrelson capture the wild, unrepentant nature of their characters. Even a saint will have a hard time not smiling through the trial scenes. But even better for those of us who only recall Flynt's outrageous wackiness--by putting his antics in context, you get a whole revised perspective of the guy. No small feat. more...
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www.boxoffice.com - : Hustler Magazine publisher Larry Flynt is one of the unlikeliest heroes imaginable for a mainstream Hollywood movie, but the biggest surprise about ''The People vs. Larry Flynt'' is how mild and inoffensive this Ixtlan/Phoenix production manages to be. One might expect that, with a protagonist who gleefully labels himself a ''scumbag'' and spends his life behaving as outrageously as possible, his biopic would be equally provocative and disturbing. Instead, the filmmakers use Flynt's strange career for an overly earnest preachment about the First Amendment. more...
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