I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

It's a mild crowd pleaser for people who are exhausted by blockbusters.

It isn't all that great, actually. Really cheesy and very predicable of how certain scenes are gonna turn play out. However, I guess that's the charm of it all, because I would consider this one of my guilty pleasures.

If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

Milos Forman's The People vs Larry Flint is a good drama which primarily poses the question of the first amendment rights in the US. Larry Flint is arrested because of his "evil" practices and tried at court but Flint believes that its in his right by the amendment to do as he chooses. Of course before all this there is the narration of his colorful life and all the people in it such as his wife Althea. This is a somewhat tragic look at a larger than life personality. All the actors from Edward Norton to Woody Harellson and Courteney Love are very good. But it's a subject that should fascinate you. A good watch.

I expected something more provocative and daring from Milos Forman, after all he has won two Oscars for best director. Instead I get a rather boring film which masquerades as an impassioned fight for free speech.Larry Flynt is a sleazy, provocative and abrasive personality. In the movie we see Larry (Woody Harrelson) and his brother run a strip club in Cincinnati where he is known for sleeping with the strippers. There he ends up with a long term relationship Althea (Courtney Love) on the verge of just being old enough to be the new sripper and the woman Larry later marries.Like most men, Larry notices that people did not buy Playboy to read the articles. They wanted to see pictures of naked women and he published Hustler, which offered women in more explicit poses. Larry even managed to obtain nude shots of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis which sent sales through the roof. However Larry's success in porn also attracts the attention of anti porn campaigners and the ire of the religious right who took him to court.Alan Isaacman (Edward Norton) is the frustrated young lawyer who takes on Larry as a client and has to put up with his erratic behaviour as they fight for first amendment rights. Both take a bullet for their troubles leaving Larry paralysed.Now I am not going to get prudish here. Larry Flynt is a pornographer, he had sex with his strippers, he exploited women, took advantage of the unequal relationship he had with women under is control whether it be in a strip club or a photo studio. Larry is no champion of free speech, it just helps him get where he wants to go just as befriending President's Carter sister was convenient for him. Frankly Ruth Carter is the only interesting character in this movie.You know this film has been sanitized to please Larry as he appears in the film as a judge. Woody Harrelson plays Larry as an erratic quirky clown, a sexed up one who might also be a manic depressive. I can certainly understand the psychological trauma he felt after being paralysed.Both Harrelson and Norton give good performances, Courtney Love was ok but she looked too old for someone who was technically a minor when she first met Larry. You can tell how bankrupt this film is. It wants to be provocative and titillate its audience, yet when Love poses for the nude shots, she is covered up by objects or conveniently clothed in lingerie.

The People VS Larry Flynt (1996): Dir: Milos Foreman / Cast: Woody Harrelson, Courtney Love, Edward Norton, James Cromwell, Richard Paul: Rousing film about Larry Flynt and his constant battle with society and what is morally acceptable. He is the creator of Hustler magazine, which rivals Playboy in its pornographic expectations. He argues that the female body should not be disregarded but lands in court on numerous occasions. Eventually he ends up in a wheelchair after an attempt is taken on his life. He lands in court again to answer a lawsuit by a religious leader. Then his wife announces that she has A.I.D.S. Some may see it as a celebration of repulsive behavior yet the film is provocative with director Milos Foreman presents strong arguments. Foreman is at his best with material such as this especially when one looks at Amadeus, arguably his best film. Woody Harrelson delivers a flawless performance displaying Flynt's ego and arrogance. Courtney Love is superb as Flynt's unstable wife whose health suffers. Edward Norton is excellent as Flynt's frustrated lawyer who does much damage control. James Cromwell delivers interesting supporting work as well as Richard Paul who plays off the religious right wing agenda of Jerry Fawell whom Flynt mocks. Portrait of a man with questionable ethics and an argument for free speech. Score: 8 / 10

The life of Hustler publisher Larry Flynt has almost too much good material. It's one thing to grow up selling moonshine, buy up some strip clubs and launch one of the most explicit pornography magazines ever created. It's another to also be a one-time born-again Christian, bipolar painkiller addict and the unsuspecting bastion of First Amendment liberties. As such, watching "The People vs. Larry Flynt" is like watching at least three different movies: You have the rise of the boundary-pushing magazine editor, the drug-addled romance and the courtroom drama. So many events in Flynt's life and facets to his personality warrant a deeper look, yet there's just no time. Writers Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewksi and of course two-time Oscar-winning director Milos Foreman make the most of each part, but the whole product lacks the unity of a masterful biography.At the time, Woody Harrelson proved a curious choice to play Flynt, but he nails the bipolar aspects of the master pornographer. We have so much trouble determining his motives, digging for some sign of logical thought. In most cases, this makes for a frustrating case study, for which you might normally blame the actor for not taking us deep enough. Considering how the film jumps from one aspect of Flynt's life to the next in addition to how completely unpredictable of a character he is, Harrelson deserves praise. He keeps you on your toes like the crazy uncle who jokes so much you can't tell when he's really serious.Then there's Courtney Love. Playing Flynt's stripper girlfriend-turned-wife, Althea, Love gives Foreman more than he bargained for. Hiring a drug addict to play a drug addict is a dangerous game, and not when it comes to working with that person. It's tough to divorce love from Althea, such a controversial public figure at the time and even to some extent to this day. She's frighteningly real as Althea at some points, especially once she starts mooching off Flynt's painkillers after the assassination attempt.Some of the most compelling drama in the film comes in the courtroom scenes. Those fascinated to any extent with free speech law and censorship will crave more from "The People vs. Larry Flynt," especially when the title seems to promise it in higher doses. Edward Norton nabbed a career-making role as Flynt's attorney, Alan Isaacman. Getting noticed by Milos Foreman and Woody Allen ("Everyone Says I Love You") at the same time is pretty impressive. He delivers an expert closing argument in the film's first trial that will have you convinced he wins the case, as well as a powerful yet light-hearted opening speech in the Supreme Court's hearing of the infamous Flynt vs. Falwell case, a landmark win for First Amendment rights."The People vs. Larry Flynt" touches on so many fascinating aspects of this enigmatic figure, but it sacrifices some depth and consequently the emotional pull. Flynt's life blurs by, and though the writing compensates with some nice transitions, there's no substitute for getting Q.T. with Flynt. The Hustler empire appears to be built in a day a scene in which Flynt tells a photographer that "a woman's vagina has as much personality as her face" is the most insight we get into his mind as editor. Good writing there, but a fleeting moment in the bigger picture.The second half of the film, essentially Larry's life after becoming a paraplegic, feels so radically different. Larry's stroke garbles his speech and Althea's addiction has her looking like a flying monkey in the "Wizard of Oz." Two people who once seemed to have their wits about them become such filthy and disturbed characters. At that point you start to identify with Norton's character instead, as he's the only one who understands the balance between defending free speech and making a complete mockery of the judicial system.You'll want this film to be more of everything, particularly of Flynt as the unorthodox crusader for free speech and the magazine publisher who works the line between genius and insanity. The individual moments or scenes of such captivate, but get lost on the whole. The challenge of boiling a fascinating man's life down to a series of striking moments can sometimes be too immense for even the best of filmmakers.~Steven CThanks for reading! Check out more of my reviews at moviemusereviews.com