Film
The Dirk Diggler Story
1988Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson
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- Released
- Runtime
- 31m
About The Dirk Diggler Story
- Comedy
- Drama
Synopsis
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).
- Director
- Paul Thomas Anderson
- Writer
- Paul Thomas Anderson
