The Dirk Diggler Story

Name: The Dirk Diggler Story
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Released: 1988-01-01
Duration: 31 min
Cast: Eddie Delcore, Robert Ridgely, Rusty Schwimmer, Michael Stein, Ernie Anderson

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Release Date

1/1/1988

Runtime

31 mins

Genres

Drama Comedy

Overview

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).

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Released

Original Language

English

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A sharp, satirical mockumentary that treats its sleazy subject with formal documentary rigor, finding dark humor in the tragic arc of a man undone by fame and substances. It's cynical and crude, but surprisingly controlled for a seventeen-year-old's work.