Larry Flynt: The Right to Be Left Alone

2007 | 80 min. | Director: Joan Brooker-Marks | TVMA
In a timely response to a current political situation where the fundamental civil rights of Americans are being contested, Joan Brooker-Marks's documentary offers an eye-opening overview of Huster publisher Larry Flynt's long-standing struggles to expand the parameters of free speech and expose the hypocrisy of this country's elected leaders. Featuring rarely seen documentary and television footage, as well as in-depth interviews with Flynt himself, the film focuses on the self-described smut peddler's usually contentious entanglements with politics from his precedent-setting Supreme Court case against evangelist and adulterer Jerry Falwell, to his jail sentence for refusing to name his source for the tapes documenting the FBI's entrapment of John Delorean, to his campaign runs for both California governor and United States President.

darla

I watched this important documentary this evening. I remember when Flint was digging up info about Republicans who had been throwing mud at Clinton. My mother wanted to get a copy of Flint's report. It was quite interesting trying to find the issue in Oklahoma City. While standing in line at a local convenience store, I asked if they carried Hustler. The room became so silent you could hear a pin drop. I felt like I was in an EF Hutton commercial. A man behind me said "I know of a good church you could go to". I replied that I wasn't looking for a church, only a magazine. We still have that issue.

Duanette

I have been invigorated by this powerful documentary. What an eye opening reminder of how easy a society can be lead to become a bunch of worker ants, never going outside the line or questioning wrongs. We have an obligation to watch and question everything that concerns our rights in this country to preserve our "Freedoms" we take for granted everyday, if not for ourselves for our children. Thank you Larry Flynt for all that you have done. You are my hero!