You think the First Amendment was designed to protect you from offensive speech? Think again. The real glory of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights - as brought to life in this splendidly quirky and alternately reverent and irreverent comedy - is that it ensures everyone's freedom by protecting a whole range of expression, from the banal to the outrageous.
Scripted by the writers of Ed Wood (another affectionately twisted biography of a disreputably eccentric entertainment figure),The People vs. Larry Flynt applies a similar sort of exaggerated and telescoped editorial-cartoon sensibility to the wild life and times of Hustler skin-magazine publisher Larry Flynt. It's the great (and fictionalized-but-true) American story of how smut-peddler Flynt - the poor mans redneck Hugh Hefner - ended up appealing a libel case (brought by televangelist Jerry Falwell) to the Supreme Court and winning a major legal victory that affects us all. Terrific performances by Woody Harrelson as Flynt, grunge-star-turned-glamour-puss Courtney Love as his wife Althea, and Edward Norton as their lawyer (a composite character).
All I can say is watch this movie, I've seen it before years ago, but it was as fresh and entertaining as the first time!
Here is the trailer...
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