The Dirk Diggler Story

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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Cast

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  Michael Stein

  Dirk Diggler

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  Robert Ridgely

  Jack Horner

• Eddie Delcore

  Reed Rothchild

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  Rusty Schwimmer

  Candy Kane

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  Ernie Anderson

  Narrator (uncredited)

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