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1	* AcclaimedFlop: Like ''Film/EdWood'' and ''Film/ManOnTheMoon'', got great reviews but fell short of its budget.
2	* ActorSharedBackground: Music/CourtneyLove plays stripper Althea Flynt in this film. Before she was famous, Love was a stripper in real-life, too.
3	* AwesomeDearBoy: Creator/EdwardNorton took part in this film because he desperately wanted to work with Creator/MilosForman.
4	* BoxOfficeBomb: Budget, $35 million. Box office, $20.3 million.
5	* 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.
6	* HypotheticalCasting: Larry Flynt wanted Creator/MichaelDouglas to play him on film.
7	* IronyAsSheIsCast: James Carville, a well-known [[UsefulNotes/AmericanPoliticalSystem liberal Democrat]] in RealLife, plays Simon Leis, the Ohio prosecutor who first charged Larry with obscenity.
8	** Burt Neuborne, a RealLife attorney for Larry Flynt portrays ''Jerry Falwell's lawyer'' Roy Grutman.
9	** 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.
10	* RealLifeRelative: Brett Harrelson, Woody's brother, played Larry Flynt's brother Jimmy.
11	* 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.
12	* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
13	** 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.
14	** Creator/TomArnold, Creator/JimCarrey, Creator/TomHanks, and Creator/BillMurray were considered for Larry Flynt.
15	** Creator/CameronDiaz auditioned for Althea Leasure. Creator/PatriciaArquette, Creator/ElizabethBerkley, Creator/RachelGriffiths, Creator/AshleyJudd, Creator/ParkerPosey and Creator/MiraSorvino were also considered.
16	** Creator/OliverStone considered directing.

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