The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996)

Cast includes:
CHARACTER	ACTOR/ACTRESS	RATING
Larry Flynt	Woody Harrelson
Althea Leasure	Courtney Love
Alan Isaacman	Edward Norton
Jerry Falwell	Richard Paul
Charles Keating	James Cromwell
Ruth Carter Stapleton	Donna Hanover
Arlo	Crispin Glover
Chester	Vincent Schiavelli
Jimmy Flynt	Brett Harrelson

Review

In the midst of the sexual revolution of the 1960s and 70s, Larry Flynt, the creator of Hustler magazine, was the less narcissistic and more humorous version of Hugh Hefner. In this film from 1996, master director Milos Forman (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest) mixes the biopic ingredients shrewdly and delivers a perfectly structured, remarkably well-written and brilliantly acted account of Larry Flynt's life and times. Woody Harrelson plays the title-role with a blazing display of bravura. He is equally adept in the dramatically heavier parts as he is at delivering Flynt's at times deadpan sarcasm and outrageous antics. And opposite Harrelson, as Flynt's free-thinking girlfriend and later wife, Courtney Love gives a frighteningly authentic performance. Their unorthodox but still loyal relationship is the hub of the story, and it glows with all its peculiarities as the two take on the entire world armed with the principles they believe in. One of the best, and undoubtedly funniest, biopics of the decade (in strong competition with Forman's follow-up three years later, Man on the Moon).