Directed by Miloš Forman • 1996 • United States
Starring Woody Harrelson, Courtney Love, Edward Norton
Director Miloš Forman brings his slyly subversive sensibility to this wickedly entertaining, stranger-than-fiction look at one man’s notorious public persona and unconventional private life. Woody Harrelson stars as Larry Flynt, the small-time strip-club owner who created a publishing empire with his raw and raunchy “Hustler” magazine. The grade-school dropout became a blue-collar Hugh Hefner, marrying exotic dancer Althea Leasure (Courtney Love) and settling into a twenty-four-room mansion. But Hustler pushed the limits of American tolerance, and Flynt attracted enemies like a magnet. Arrested for obscenity and constantly harassed, he began an arduous fight against the rising tide of censorship and the emerging radical religious right.
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Beat
Directed by Gary Walkow • 2000 • United States
Starring Courtney Love, Kiefer Sutherland, Ron LivingstonThe iconoclastic, live-fast-die-young ethos of the Beat generation drives this potent portrait of some of the major literary lions of the twentieth century. From 1940s New York to 1950s Mexic...
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Trapped
Directed by Luis Mandoki • 2002 • United States, Germany
Starring Charlize Theron, Courtney Love, Stuart TownsendWhen their daughter (Dakota Fanning) is abducted and taken for ransom by a gang of serial kidnappers, a young doctor (Stuart Townsend) and his wife (Charlize Theron) are held hostage...
