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The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996)

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• Tom Hanks and Bill Murray were considered for the role of Larry Flynt.
  
  
• Larry Flynt and his brother Jimmy Flynt are played by real-life brothers Woody Harrelson and Brett Harrelson.
  
  
• The real Larry Flynt appears as a judge.
  
  

• The closing argument by Edward Norton was taken verbatim from Alan L. Isaacman's actual closing arguments. Isaacman revealed this in a documentary of the film.
  
  
• Gastrolle: [Larry Karaszewski] the hand that puts a dollar bill in the swimsuit of a lady when the words "20 Years Later" are written onscreen at the beginning of the movie belongs to one of the writers.
  
  
• Gastrolle: [Scott Alexander] Client #3 sitting at the bar at the beginning of the movie/
  
  
• According to Rev. Jerry Falwell and contrary to what we see in the film, he did not find out about the parody ad in "Hustler" from his staff at Liberty University. He was alerted to the ad when someone in the media asked him about it.
  
  
• Larry Flynt originally wanted Ashley Judd to play Althea.
  
  
• The Hollywood mansion shown in the movie was the mansion where the real Larry Flynt lived in the early 1980s.
  
  
• The real Larry Flynt, when asked who he would like to play him in the movie, picked Michael Douglas.
  
  
• The character of Doug, one of Larry Flynt's bodyguards in the movie, was bodyguard for the real Flynt at the time the movie was filmed.
  
  
• The character of Dr. Bob is played by one of the real doctors who took care of Larry Flynt.
  
  
• The character of the Hollywood judge Thomas Alva Mantke is actually a composite character of many judges, the screenwriters chose to name him after one of their friends.
  
  
• The producers were set on casting Bill Murray as Larry Flynt but according the Milos Forman, Murray never returned his phone calls.
  
  
• The golden vagina necklace that Woody Harrelson wears in one of the courtroom scenes is actually a real jewel that belonged to the real Larry Flynt.
  
  
• The insurance fees for Courtney Love were so high, the studio would not pay them. Woody Harrelson, the producers (Oliver Stone and Michael Hausman), the director (Milos Forman) and Love paid the fees out-of-pocket.
  
  

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