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The Dirk Diggler Story (1988)

★ 5.1/10 31 min Comedy, Drama United States English
Streaming: Not available

Description

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).

Top Cast

Michael Stein
Michael Stein Dirk Diggler
Robert Ridgely
Robert Ridgely Jack Horner
Eddie Delcore Reed Rothchild
Rusty Schwimmer
Rusty Schwimmer Candy Kane
Ernie Anderson
Ernie Anderson Narrator (uncredited)

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