Yet it it seems oddly helpful that the director Milos Forman was Czech.
Forman does a brilliant job directing this and keeping the pacing up.
It doesn’t fall into the biopic trap so many other movies can get in.
A couple years later, Forman would directMan On The Moon(#54).
Neither movie feels overstuffed or forced.
Woody Harrelson gives the best performance in a career full of great ones.
He doesn’t get enough credit for being one of the most versatile actors of all-time.
He is hysterical for years on Cheers and in movies like Kingpin.
He can obviously do dramas like True Detective or Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.
Here, he does some of both.
The heavy dramatic scenes hit the hardest but this movie has a lot of comedy in it as well.
Larry Flynt was a funny guy and Woody is perfect at capturing that.
This movie is also casted brilliantly.
Norton is so believable as a young brilliant lawyer.
On the other side, Love is so good here.
She was great in Man On The Moon too.
It’s a shame she didn’t have more of a career as an actress.
This came out at both a good and bad time.
It was a good time because in the 1990’s, not everything was seen through a political lens.
This was just a story about anti-censorship.
Both sides of the aisle can agree on a lot of the basic principles.
It never finished above 7th in any weekend of release.
I am guessing it’s among the most forgotten of any movie on the list so far.
It’s a shame this movie doesn’t have more cultural relevance today.
It holds up remarkably well and is an even more important message now than when it came out.
People are so much quicker to say we can’t or shouldn’t say certain things.
It even hit us here in the last week with what Big Cat said about Taylor Swift.
Social media has made it easier than ever to have a voice amplified.
Free speech is not always going to be clean and pretty but it will always be perfect.
You take away one aspect of free speech and you may remove other layers that you don’t intend.
That’s how speech stops becoming free.
That’s also why Larry Flynt is an American hero.
The People Vs. Larry Flynt
49.
Eyes Wide Shut
50.
The Green Mile
54.
Man On The Moon
55.
Boyz N The Hood
56.
Grosse Pointe Blank
57.
The Talented Mr. Ripley
63.
The Usual Suspects
65.
In The Line Of Fire
66.
My Cousin Vinny
67.
The River Wild
79.
What’s Eating Gilbert Grape?
Stir Of Echoes
82.
Mission: Impossible
83.
For Love Of The Game
86.
Being John Malkovich
87.
Men In Black
88.
Glengarry Glen Ross
92.
Die Hard With A Vengeance
93.
The Blair Witch Project
94.
Any Given Sunday
99.
The Wedding Singer
100.
