

01/01/1988
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).

Michael Stein
as Dirk Diggler

Robert Ridgely
as Jack Horner

Eddie Delcore
as Reed Rothchild

Rusty Schwimmer
as Candy Kane

Ernie Anderson
as Narrator (uncredited)
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