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The People vs Larry Flint

Posted on August 10, 1997August 20, 2018 by Village Vidiot

   “The People vs. Larry Flint,” biography, August 10, 1997 (1996), video.   Funny but problematic piece about Flint, the Hustler publisher. Woody Harrelson is good and Courtney Love as his wife Althea is even better. I just found I couldn’t believe the lawyer, the shift to Flint as true believer in the First Amendment, and the subtexts around freedom of speech I also really disliked the use of “Amadeus-like” technique with the music in the second half as he deals with his wife’s death. A drag, excessively melodramatic, and given the Milos Foreman made both films, cinematically redundant.

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