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** James Cromwell, who is similarly known for his far left-wing views in real life, also plays the staunchly conservative Chares Keating who is one of Falwell's most vocal allies.

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* HypotheticalCasting: Larry Flynt wanted Creator/MichaelDouglas to play him on film.



** Creator/TomArnold, Creator/JimCarrey, Creator/TomHanks, and Creator/BillMurray were considered for Larry Flynt. Larry's personal choice was Creator/MichaelDouglas.

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** Creator/TomArnold, Creator/JimCarrey, Creator/TomHanks, and Creator/BillMurray were considered for Larry Flynt. Larry's personal choice was Creator/MichaelDouglas.
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* DawsonCasting: Music/CourtneyLove was 32 when she played Althea. The real Althea was sixteen (the age of consent in Ohio) when she started at Larry's strip club.

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* DawsonCasting: Music/CourtneyLove was 32 when she played Althea. The real Althea was only sixteen (the legal age of consent in Ohio) when she started at Larry's strip club.
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* AwesomeDearBoy: Creator/EdwardNorton took on the film because he desperately wanted to work with Creator/MilosForman.

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* AwesomeDearBoy: Creator/EdwardNorton took on the part in this film because he desperately wanted to work with Creator/MilosForman.



* RealPersonCameo: Burt Neuborne, a real life attorney for Larry Flynt portrays Jerry Falwell's lawyer Roy Grutman.

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* RealPersonCameo: ** Burt Neuborne, a real life RealLife attorney for Larry Flynt portrays Jerry ''Jerry Falwell's lawyer lawyer'' Roy Grutman.
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* RealLifeCameo: Burt Neuborne, a real life attorney for Larry Flynt portrays Jerry Falwell's lawyer Roy Grutman.

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* RealLifeCameo: RealPersonCameo: Burt Neuborne, a real life attorney for Larry Flynt portrays Jerry Falwell's lawyer Roy Grutman.
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* RealLifeCameo: Burt Neuborne, a real life attorney for Larry Flynt portrays Jerry Falwell's lawyer Roy Grutman.
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* ThrowItIn: "Illanis, I'll be along in an hour and I'll bring the ping pong balls." was an ad lib by Woody Harrelson, who did it as he had played ping pong with Music/AlanisMorissette the night before.
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** Creator/JimCarrey, Creator/TomHanks, and Creator/BillMurray were considered for Larry Flynt. Larry's personal choice was Creator/MichaelDouglas.
** Creator/CameronDiaz auditioned for Althea Leasure. Creator/PatriciaArquette, Creator/ElizabethBerkley and Creator/AshleyJudd were also considered.

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** Creator/TomArnold, Creator/JimCarrey, Creator/TomHanks, and Creator/BillMurray were considered for Larry Flynt. Larry's personal choice was Creator/MichaelDouglas.
** Creator/CameronDiaz auditioned for Althea Leasure. Creator/PatriciaArquette, Creator/ElizabethBerkley Creator/ElizabethBerkley, Creator/RachelGriffiths, Creator/AshleyJudd, Creator/ParkerPosey and Creator/AshleyJudd Creator/MiraSorvino were also considered.
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** Creator/CameronDiaz auditioned for Althea Leasure. Creator/PatriciaArquette and Creator/AshleyJudd were also considered.

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** Creator/CameronDiaz auditioned for Althea Leasure. Creator/PatriciaArquette Creator/PatriciaArquette, Creator/ElizabethBerkley and Creator/AshleyJudd were also considered.
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** Creator/CameronDiaz auditioned for Althea Leasure. Creator/PatriciaArquette and Creator/AshleyJudd was also considered.
** Creator/OliverStone conisdered directing.

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** Creator/CameronDiaz auditioned for Althea Leasure. Creator/PatriciaArquette and Creator/AshleyJudd was were also considered.
** Creator/OliverStone conisdered considered directing.

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* AcclaimedFlop: Like Film/EdWood and Film/ManOnTheMoon, got great reviews but fell short of its budget.

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* AcclaimedFlop: Like Film/EdWood ''Film/EdWood'' and Film/ManOnTheMoon, ''Film/ManOnTheMoon'', got great reviews but fell short of its budget.budget.
* ActorSharedBackground: Music/CourtneyLove plays stripper Althea Flynt in this film. Before she was famous, Love was a stripper in real-life, too.



* BoxOfficeBomb: Budget, $35 million. Box office, $20.3 million.



** Creator/CameronDiaz auditioned for Althea Leasure. Creator/AshleyJudd was also considered.

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** Creator/CameronDiaz auditioned for Althea Leasure. Creator/PatriciaArquette and Creator/AshleyJudd was also considered.considered.
** Creator/OliverStone conisdered directing.
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** Creator/JimCarrey, Creator/TomHanks and Creator/BillMurray were considered for Larry Flynt. Larry's personal choice was Creator/MichaelDouglas.

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** Creator/JimCarrey, Creator/TomHanks Creator/TomHanks, and Creator/BillMurray were considered for Larry Flynt. Larry's personal choice was Creator/MichaelDouglas.
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* AcclaimedFlop: Like Film/EdWood and Film/ManOnTheMoon, got great reviews but fell short of its budget.
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** Both Creator/JimCarrey, Creator/TomHanks and Creator/BillMurray were considered for Larry Flynt. Larry's personal choice was Creator/MichaelDouglas.

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** Both Creator/JimCarrey, Creator/TomHanks and Creator/BillMurray were considered for Larry Flynt. Larry's personal choice was Creator/MichaelDouglas.
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** Both Creator/TomHanks and Creator/BillMurray were considered for Larry Flynt. Larry's personal choice was Creator/MichaelDouglas.
** Creator/CameronDiaz auditioned for Althea Leasure.

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** Both Creator/JimCarrey, Creator/TomHanks and Creator/BillMurray were considered for Larry Flynt. Larry's personal choice was Creator/MichaelDouglas.
** Creator/CameronDiaz auditioned for Althea Leasure. Creator/AshleyJudd was also considered.
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* CreatorCameo: Flynt himself plays a judge. The screenwriters also have brief appearances.

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* AsHimself: A doctor and a bodyguard who took care of Flynt in real life do the same on-screen here.

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* AsHimself: A doctor and a bodyguard who AwesomeDearBoy: Creator/EdwardNorton took care of Flynt in real life do on the same on-screen here.film because he desperately wanted to work with Creator/MilosForman.



** Both Tom Hanks and Bill Murray were considered for the role of Larry Flynt.

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** Both Tom Hanks Creator/TomHanks and Bill Murray Creator/BillMurray were considered for the role of Larry Flynt.Flynt. Larry's personal choice was Creator/MichaelDouglas.
** Creator/CameronDiaz auditioned for Althea Leasure.

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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Larry's satiric Presidential campaign in 1984 was left out of the movie, since the writers believed that focusing on Larry's feud with Jerry Falwell, culminating in his victory at the Supreme Court, was a better way to make the film's points.

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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: WhatCouldHaveBeen:
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Larry's satiric Presidential campaign in 1984 was left out of the movie, since the writers believed that focusing on Larry's feud with Jerry Falwell, culminating in his victory at the Supreme Court, was a better way to make the film's points.points.
** Both Tom Hanks and Bill Murray were considered for the role of Larry Flynt.
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* DawsonCasting: Music/CourtneyLove was 32 when she played Althea. The real Althea was sixteen (the age of consent in Ohio) when she started at Larry's strip club; Larry can tell she is "not legal" and she says she's but a centimeter from legal age - as in, the very next day was her 16th birthday, and she auditioned while she still was underage just to amuse herself.

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* DawsonCasting: Music/CourtneyLove was 32 when she played Althea. The real Althea was sixteen (the age of consent in Ohio) when she started at Larry's strip club; Larry can tell she is "not legal" and she says she's but a centimeter from legal age - as in, the very next day was her 16th birthday, and she auditioned while she still was underage just to amuse herself.club.



* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Larry's satiric Presidential campaign in 1984 was left out of the movie, since the writers believed that focusing on Larry's feud with Jerry Falwell, culminating in his victory at the Supreme Court, was a better way to make the film's points.

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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Larry's satiric Presidential campaign in 1984 was left out of the movie, since the writers believed that focusing on Larry's feud with Jerry Falwell, culminating in his victory at the Supreme Court, was a better way to make the film's points.

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* AsHimself: A doctor and a bodyguard who took care of Flynt in real life do the same on-screen here.
* CreatorCameo: Flynt himself plays a judge. The screenwriters also have brief appearances.



* Larry's satiric Presidential campaign in 1984 was left out of the movie, since the writers believed that focusing on Larry's feud with Jerry Falwell, culminating in his victory at the Supreme Court, was a better way to make the film's points.

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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Larry's satiric Presidential campaign in 1984 was left out of the movie, since the writers believed that focusing on Larry's feud with Jerry Falwell, culminating in his victory at the Supreme Court, was a better way to make the film's points.
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* DawsonCasting: Music/CourtneyLove was 32 when she played Althea. The real Althea was sixteen(the age of consent in Ohio) when she started at Larry's strip club; Larry can tell she is "not legal" and she says she's but a centimeter from legal age - as in, the very next day was her 16th birthday, and she auditioned while she still was underage just to amuse herself.
* [[IronyAsSheIsCast Irony As He Is Cast]]: James Carville, a well-known [[UsefulNotes/AmericanPoliticalSystem liberal Democrat]] in RealLife, plays Simon Leis, the Ohio prosecutor who first charged Larry with obscenity.

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* DawsonCasting: Music/CourtneyLove was 32 when she played Althea. The real Althea was sixteen(the sixteen (the age of consent in Ohio) when she started at Larry's strip club; Larry can tell she is "not legal" and she says she's but a centimeter from legal age - as in, the very next day was her 16th birthday, and she auditioned while she still was underage just to amuse herself.
* [[IronyAsSheIsCast Irony As He Is Cast]]: IronyAsSheIsCast: James Carville, a well-known [[UsefulNotes/AmericanPoliticalSystem liberal Democrat]] in RealLife, plays Simon Leis, the Ohio prosecutor who first charged Larry with obscenity.obscenity.
* RealLifeRelative: Brett Harrelson, Woody's brother, played Larry Flynt's brother Jimmy.
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* RealLifeRelative: Brett Harrelson, Woody's brother, played Larry Flynt's brother Jimmy.
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* DawsonCasting: Music/CourtneyLove was 32 when she played Althea. The real Althea was sixteen when she started at Larry's strip club. Her age is not outright stated in the film, but Larry can tell she is "not legal" and she says she's but a centimeter from legal age - as in, she ''does'' state that the very next day was her 18th birthday, and she auditioned while she still was underage just to amuse herself.

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* DawsonCasting: Music/CourtneyLove was 32 when she played Althea. The real Althea was sixteen sixteen(the age of consent in Ohio) when she started at Larry's strip club. Her age is not outright stated in the film, but club; Larry can tell she is "not legal" and she says she's but a centimeter from legal age - as in, she ''does'' state that the very next day was her 18th 16th birthday, and she auditioned while she still was underage just to amuse herself.
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* DawsonCasting: Music/CourtneyLove was 32 when she played Althea. The real Althea was sixteen when she started at Larry's strip club. Her age is not stated in the film, but Larry can tell she is "not legal" and she says she's but a centimeter from legal age.

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* DawsonCasting: Music/CourtneyLove was 32 when she played Althea. The real Althea was sixteen when she started at Larry's strip club. Her age is not outright stated in the film, but Larry can tell she is "not legal" and she says she's but a centimeter from legal age.age - as in, she ''does'' state that the very next day was her 18th birthday, and she auditioned while she still was underage just to amuse herself.
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* DawsonCasting: Music/CourtneyLove was 32 when she played Althea. The real Althea was sixteen when she started at Larry's strip club. Her age is not stated in the film, but Larry can tell she is "not legal" and she says she's but a centimeter from legal age.
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* Larry's satiric Presidential campaign in 1984 was left out of the movie, since the writers believed that focusing on Larry's feud with Jerry Falwell, culminating in his victory at the Supreme Court, was a better way to make the film's points.

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* Larry's satiric Presidential campaign in 1984 was left out of the movie, since the writers believed that focusing on Larry's feud with Jerry Falwell, culminating in his victory at the Supreme Court, was a better way to make the film's points.points.
* RealLifeRelative: Brett Harrelson, Woody's brother, played Larry Flynt's brother Jimmy.
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[[IronyAsSheIsCast Irony As He Is Cast]]: James Carville, a well-known [[UsefulNotes/AmericanPoliticalSystem liberal Democrat]] in RealLife, plays Simon Leis, the Ohio prosecutor who first charged Larry with obscenity.

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* [[IronyAsSheIsCast Irony As He Is Cast]]: James Carville, a well-known [[UsefulNotes/AmericanPoliticalSystem liberal Democrat]] in RealLife, plays Simon Leis, the Ohio prosecutor who first charged Larry with obscenity.
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[[IronyAsSheIsCast Irony As He Is Cast]]: James Carville, a well-known [[UsefulNotes/AmericanPoliticalSystem liberal Democrat]] in RealLife, plays Simon Leis, the Ohio prosecutor who first charged Larry with obscenity.

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[[IronyAsSheIsCast Irony As He Is Cast]]: James Carville, a well-known [[UsefulNotes/AmericanPoliticalSystem liberal Democrat]] in RealLife, plays Simon Leis, the Ohio prosecutor who first charged Larry with obscenity.obscenity.
* Larry's satiric Presidential campaign in 1984 was left out of the movie, since the writers believed that focusing on Larry's feud with Jerry Falwell, culminating in his victory at the Supreme Court, was a better way to make the film's points.
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[[IronyAsSheIsCast Irony As He Is Cast]]: James Carville, a well-known [[UsefulNotes/AmericanPoliticalSystem liberal Democrat]] in RealLife, plays Simon Leis, the Ohio prosecutor who first charged Larry with obscenity.

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