The Dirk Diggler Story (1988)

Name: The Dirk Diggler Story
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
Released: 1988-01-01
Rating: 5.1
Cast: Michael Stein, Robert Ridgely, Eddie Delcore, Rusty Schwimmer, Ernie Anderson

ComedyDrama

31 min

Plot Summary

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).