Larry Flynt: The Right to Be Left Alone (2007)

User Rating:

7.8/10   

Director:

Joan Brooker-Marks

Genre:

Documentary

Plot:

A documentary that celebrates and examines an unabashed vulgarian. |

Plot Keywords:

Religious Right | First Amendment | Porn Magazine | White Supremacist | Religious Nut

Cast

Larry Flynt	...	Himself
Al van Schaik	...	Himself - Hustler magazine
Simon L. Leis Jr.	...	Himself
Robert Scheer	...	Himself
Andrea Dworkin	...	Herself
Veronica Hart	...	Herself
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Bob Barr	...	Himself (archive footage)
Tom Brokaw	...	Himself (archive footage)
George W. Bush	...	Himself (archive footage)
Ruth Carter Stapleton	...	Herself (archive footage)
John Chancellor	...	Himself (archive footage)
Dick Cheney	...	Himself (archive footage)
Sandra Collins	...	Herself - shooting witness (archive footage)
Walter Cronkite	...	Himself (archive footage)
John DeLorean	...	Himself (archive footage)
Jerry Falwell	...	Himself (archive footage)
Althea Flynt	...	Herself (archive footage)
Jimmy Flynt	...	Himself (archive footage)
Milos Forman	...	Himself (archive footage)
Joseph Paul Franklin	...	Himself (archive footage)
Rudolph W. Giuliani	...	Himself (archive footage)
Jeremy Glick	...	Himself (archive footage)
Woody Harrelson	...	Himself (archive footage)
Paris Hilton	...	Herself (archive footage)
Saddam Hussein	...	Himself (archive footage)
Alan L. Isaacman	...	Himself
Charles Keating	...	Himself (archive footage)
Jean Kidwell	...	Herself - Ohioans for Decency (archive footage)
Larry King	...	Himself (archive footage)
Bob Livingston	...	Himself (archive footage)
Jessica Lynch	...	Herself (archive footage)
Chris Matthews	...	Himself (archive footage)
Bill O'Reilly	...	Himself (archive footage)
Dan Rather	...	Himself (archive footage)
Harry Reasoner	...	Himself (archive footage)
Donald Rumsfeld	...	Himself (archive footage)
Larry Sabato	...	Himself (archive footage)
Gloria Steinem	...	Herself (archive footage)
Jon Stewart	...	Himself (archive footage)
Verne Troyer	...	Himself
Hannah Vreeland	...	Herself

Runtime:

USA:74 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

USA:TV-MA (cable rating)

Company:

Midtown Films

Movie Connections:

References The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996)

Not What You Might Expect

As the heading line proclaims, I walked into this,expecting it to be a diatribe on porn. Silly me. What I got was a top flight documentary about a man who stood for freedom of the press,as well as an advocate for free speech. Yep,you guessed it:Larry Flynt,the publisher of Hustler (the anti Playboy). Early on,the doc does explain Flynts early salad days as a club owner,who decided to start a news letter on the girls he hired in the club. The news letter turned into a magazine for adults, specializing in graphic photographs of unclad attractive women in provocative poses. As to be expected,the 'zine did get both it's pros,as well as just as many cons. Flynt went on to be the outspoken voice against censorship (despite an assassination attempt in 1978, which left him paralyzed from the waste down). He also went on to take on the conservative religious/political right (there is plenty of video footage of his case against Jerry Falwell). He now tours the country as a well spoken orator,speaking out against George W.Bush,and other ilk of his kind. I would well recommend this to free speech advocates,as well as anybody who appreciates the documentary form.