This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

Blistering performances.

This is a great biographical film based on the infamous Hustler magazine owner Larry Flint and his various battles with the US jurisdiction. Woody Harrlelson is in fine form as the titular character and Edward Norton, a new face when the film was made more than holds his own against far more experienced thespians. All in all if you enjoy court house films you will probably enjoy this one as well. Also Milos Forman is a legend who has made One flew over the cuckoo's nest and Amadeus and just for that you should give this one a shot.

I expected something more provocative and daring from Milos Forman, after all he has won two Oscars for best director. Instead I get a rather boring film which masquerades as an impassioned fight for free speech.Larry Flynt is a sleazy, provocative and abrasive personality. In the movie we see Larry (Woody Harrelson) and his brother run a strip club in Cincinnati where he is known for sleeping with the strippers. There he ends up with a long term relationship Althea (Courtney Love) on the verge of just being old enough to be the new sripper and the woman Larry later marries.Like most men, Larry notices that people did not buy Playboy to read the articles. They wanted to see pictures of naked women and he published Hustler, which offered women in more explicit poses. Larry even managed to obtain nude shots of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis which sent sales through the roof. However Larry's success in porn also attracts the attention of anti porn campaigners and the ire of the religious right who took him to court.Alan Isaacman (Edward Norton) is the frustrated young lawyer who takes on Larry as a client and has to put up with his erratic behaviour as they fight for first amendment rights. Both take a bullet for their troubles leaving Larry paralysed.Now I am not going to get prudish here. Larry Flynt is a pornographer, he had sex with his strippers, he exploited women, took advantage of the unequal relationship he had with women under is control whether it be in a strip club or a photo studio. Larry is no champion of free speech, it just helps him get where he wants to go just as befriending President's Carter sister was convenient for him. Frankly Ruth Carter is the only interesting character in this movie.You know this film has been sanitized to please Larry as he appears in the film as a judge. Woody Harrelson plays Larry as an erratic quirky clown, a sexed up one who might also be a manic depressive. I can certainly understand the psychological trauma he felt after being paralysed.Both Harrelson and Norton give good performances, Courtney Love was ok but she looked too old for someone who was technically a minor when she first met Larry. You can tell how bankrupt this film is. It wants to be provocative and titillate its audience, yet when Love poses for the nude shots, she is covered up by objects or conveniently clothed in lingerie.

Half the man is just sleaze and smut, but the other half is very noble and admirable," says legendary filmmaker Milos Forman. This biography about the famous pornography magnate spans 25 years, and follows the rise of the man who started as an operator in a striptease joint, and ended up as the publisher of the controversial pornographic magazine Hustler."The People vs. Larry Flynt" tells the true story of a man who challenged the borderline of public taste, and whose trial started a raging debate with defenders of morality about the First Amendment.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 freedoms. You may not like what he does, but are you prepared to give up his right to do it?Excerpt from "Movies that Moved with Prakash Silwal https://www.facebook.com/ektafilmsnp/

Well, considering I'm a law school student and I have always enjoyed 90's courtroom dramas, Larry Flint's story couldn't stand only in my wish list. That being said, last night I rented it and had a good time. "The People vs. Larry Flynt" differs from the main movies of the genre due to its eccentric characters, professionally portrayed by Woody Harrelson and Courtney Love. Harrelson's character is a man who does everything in his power to innovate and provoke the society, in order to expand the idea that we can't just accept what people say to us; we have to use our minds and do what we feel like doing, as long as it doesn't negatively affect other people's lives-- and that's an ideology I've always agreed with. His wife, on the other hand, is an uneducated girl who spent her youth years working with him in the pornography industry, never seeming to care whether it was right or wrong, good or bad. Also, she is the one who helps Larry Flynt's fell apart, abusing of prescribed drugs. One sad thing I have to admit is that I actually LAUGHED at her behavior; I mean, she looked so junkie and crazy, mainly in the court scenes, that it felt absurd to see her that way. The juridical aspect of the movie isn't very elaborated or analyzed, given that the dramatical aspects of Flint's life are more in evidence than anything else. So, if you're looking for strong courtroom dramas, there are several better ones out there, like "Red Corner" and "Primal Fear". In case you'd rather see a drama involving someone's life, including its problems with the judiciary, this film is a good choice.