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).
Dirk Diggler
Jack Horner
Reed Rothchild
Candy Kane
Narrator (uncredited)
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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).
Dirk Diggler
Jack Horner
Reed Rothchild
Candy Kane
Narrator (uncredited)
Movie / 2000
Movie / 2013
Movie / 1993
Movie / 1989
Movie / 2014
Movie / 2008
Movie / 1965
Movie / 1943
Movie / 1993
Movie / 1956
Movie / 2013
Movie / 1990
Movie / 1953
Movie / 2005
Movie / 1961
Movie / 1994
Movie / 1986
Movie / 2001
Movie / 1996
Movie / 2001