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The Dirk Diggler Story

1988 • 0h31m Comedy, Drama

Rating

5.1/10

Popularity

2

A mockumentary short film written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson at age seventeen. Presented as a behind-the-scenes television profile, it chronicles the rise and fall of Dirk Diggler, a well-endowed porn star whose fame and fortune spiral into drug abuse and tragedy. Modeled on real-life adult film actor John Holmes, the film serves as an early prototype for Anderson’s later feature Boogie Nights (1997).

Details

Director

Paul Thomas Anderson

Screenplay

Paul Thomas Anderson

Cast

Michael Stein

Robert Ridgely

Eddie Delcore

Release date

1/1/1988

Status

Released

Origin country

US

Vote count

35