Film
The Dirk Diggler Story
United States- Director
- Paul Thomas Anderson
- Year
- 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).
Top cast
Directed by
Paul Thomas Anderson
Written by
Paul Thomas Anderson
Produced by
Shane Conrad
