The Dirk Diggler Story
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).
Comedy
Drama
Movie Information
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)
