Synopsis
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 into a battle to protect the freedom of speech for all people.
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Cast
- Woody HarrelsonLarry Flynt
- Courtney LoveAlthea Leasure
- Edward NortonAlan Isaacman
- Brett HarrelsonJimmy Flynt
- Donna HanoverRuth Carter Stapleton
- James CromwellCharles Keating
- Crispin GloverArlo
- Vincent SchiavelliChester
- Miles ChapinMiles
- James CarvilleSimon Leis
Recommendations
- 90
Film.com
Althea is a ferociously vibrant character, and Love goes all out to infuse her with a wildness seldom seen on screen. Love holds nothing back, and her energy and her heartache energize the movie. - 90
Los Angeles Times
Provocative and engrossing. - 88
Chicago Tribune
There's a gentleness and open-mindedness in that touch and throughout the film that's a little at odds with the shallower script. But, in the end, that humanity pays. [27 Dec 1996] - 88
ReelViews
Tells a good, intelligent story that keeps us interested and involved. - 80
Film Threat
I loved it. I'm glad it was made...Film Threat's association with Flynt would sometimes bring gasps of outrage or phones slammed down in disgust. Now, it brings curiosity and even admiration. Kinda weird, huh? - 75
San Francisco Chronicle
With "Flynt," Love does what Madonna has been trying to do for 12 years -- create a performance filled with humor, intelligence and soul. - 70
Chicago Reader
Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski's script may in spots be as much of a skim job as their one for "Ed Wood," but it's almost as sweet and as likable, and if the movie can't ever practice what it and its hillbilly hero preach--the only "beaver" shot in the movie involves a corpse--its heart is certainly in the right place. - 70
TV Guide Magazine
But long after you've grown tired of [Flynt's] escapades, the scenes in which he and Althea support one another against the slings an arrows of outrageous fortune are touching and, ultimately, genuinely tragic.
