Search a film or person :
FacebookConnectionRegistration
The Dirk Diggler Story is a american film of genre Drama directed by Paul Thomas Anderson released in USA on 1 january 1988 with Robert Ridgely

The Dirk Diggler Story (1988)

The Dirk Diggler Story
If you like this film, let us know!
Released in USA 1 january 1988
Length 32minutes
OriginUSA
Genres Drama,    Comedy,    Documentary
Rating59% 2.9926952.9926952.9926952.9926952.992695

The Dirk Diggler Story is a 1988 mockumentary short film written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. It follows the rise and fall of Dirk Diggler, a well-endowed male porn star. The character was modeled on American porn actor John Holmes. The film was later expanded into Anderson's successful 1997 breakout film Boogie Nights.

Synopsis

Dirk Diggler (Michael Stein) was born as Steven Samuel Adams on April 15, 1961 outside of Saint Paul, Minnesota. His parents are a construction worker and a boutique shop owner who attend church every Sunday and believe in God. Looking for a career as a male model, Diggler drops out of school at age 16 and leaves home. Jack Horner (Robert Ridgely) discovers Diggler at a falafel stand. Diggler meets his friend, Reed Rothchild (Eddie Delcore), through Horner in 1979, while working on a film.

Actors

Robert Ridgely

(Jack Horner)
Ernie Anderson

(Narrator)
Trailer of The Dirk Diggler Story

Bluray, DVD

Streaming / VOD

Source : Wikidata

Comments


Leave comment :

Suggestions of similar film to The Dirk Diggler Story

There are 13 films with the same actors, 12 films with the same director, 93181 with the same cinematographic genres (including 122 with exactly the same 3 genres than The Dirk Diggler Story), 7308 films with the same themes (including 151 films with the same 2 themes than The Dirk Diggler Story), to have finally 70 suggestions of similar films.

If you liked The Dirk Diggler Story, you will probably like those similar films :
Boogie Nights, 2h36
Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about families, Medical-themed films, Films about music and musicians, Films about drugs, Films about sexuality, Films about television, Films about pornography, Musical films, Buddy films
Actors Mark Wahlberg, Julianne Moore, Burt Reynolds, Don Cheadle, John C. Reilly, William H. Macy
Rating78% 3.948363.948363.948363.948363.94836
In 1977, Eddie Adams is a high school dropout who lives with his stepfather and emotionally abusive alcoholic mother in Torrance, California. He works at a Reseda nightclub owned by Maurice Rodriguez, where he is discovered by porn director Jack Horner, who auditions him by watching him have sex with Rollergirl, a porn starlet who always wears skates. After a heated argument with his mother about his girlfriend and sex life, Adams moves in with Horner at his San Fernando Valley home.
Inherent Vice, 2h28
Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Crime, Romance
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about drugs, Films about sexuality, Gangster films
Actors Josh Brolin, Joaquin Phoenix, Benicio del Toro, Reese Witherspoon, Owen Wilson, Jena Malone
Rating65% 3.299713.299713.299713.299713.29971
In 1970, Shasta Fay Hepworth visits the rickety beach house of her ex-boyfriend, Larry "Doc" Sportello, a private investigator and hippie/dope head in Gordita Beach, a fictional town in Los Angeles County. Shasta tells him about her new lover, Michael Z. "Mickey" Wolfmann, a wealthy real estate developer. She asks Doc to help prevent Mickey’s wife and her lover from having Mickey abducted and committed to an insane asylum.
The Master
The Master (2012)
, 2h17
Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about families, Films about religion, Films about sexuality
Actors Joaquin Phoenix, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams, Laura Dern, Rami Malek, Jesse Plemons
Rating71% 3.5502553.5502553.5502553.5502553.550255
Freddie Quell is a sex-obsessed alcoholic World War II veteran from Lynn, Massachusetts, struggling to adjust to post-war society. He becomes a portrait photographer at a department store but is soon fired for getting into a drunken fight with a customer. Freddie then finds work at a Salinas, California cabbage farm, but his moonshine poisons one of the elderly Filipino migrant workers and he is chased off.
Magnolia
Magnolia (1999)
, 3h1
Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about families, Medical-themed films, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Films about cancer, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Tom Cruise, Jeremy Blackman, Melinda Dillon, April Grace, Luis Guzmán, Philip Baker Hall
Rating79% 3.998413.998413.998413.998413.99841
The narrator recounts three instances of incredible coincidences and suggests that forces greater than chance play important roles in life.
Down and Dirty Duck, 1h10
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Animation
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films
Actors Howard Kaylan, Robert Ridgely, Lurene Tuttle, Walker Edmiston
Rating52% 2.609442.609442.609442.609442.60944
Willard Isenbaum, a lonely insurance man with wild sexual fantasies, decides to propose to the new secretary, Susie, whom he has only known for a day and to whom he has never spoken. He spends the entire morning before work fantasizing about having sex with her, but his attempts to approach her fails. His female boss sends him to investigate a claim filed by Painless Martha, an aging tattoo artist, who works in a prison. Martha believes in a Ouija board message saying that she will be killed by a wizard on a Tuesday.
AV
AV (2005)
, 1h44
Origin Hong kong
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about sexuality, Films about pornography
Actors Wong You-nam, Derek Tsang, Yoyo Chen, Jim Chim, Cheung Tat-ming, Carlo Chin
Rating67% 3.386373.386373.386373.386373.38637
To satisfy their desire for Japanese porn stars, four university students decide to ask for government funding to direct their own adult movie. The project attracts numerous young people who want to be actors in the film.
Destricted
Destricted (2006)
, 1h52
Directed by Gaspar Noé, Larry Clark, Marco Brambilla, Sam Taylor-Johnson
Genres Drama, Documentary, Pornographic
Themes Films about sexuality, Films about pornography
Actors Jasmine Byrne, Dillan Lauren, August, Sativa Rose, Nancy Vee, Manuel Ferrara
Rating45% 2.254962.254962.254962.254962.25496
Impaled (Larry Clark) - A casting for a porn film, but not with the insecure women often displayed, instead with insecure young men. (37min 28s). Balkan Erotic Epic (Marina Abramović) - An erotic comedy about myths from the Balkan around the sexual organs. (13 min 04s).
Viva Erotica, 1h39
Directed by Derek Yee
Origin Hong kong
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films about pornography
Actors Leslie Cheung, Karen Mok, Shu Qi, Paul Chun, Elvis Tsui, Sean Lau
Rating66% 3.342583.342583.342583.342583.34258
Viva Erotica is a sex-comedy film, though with a serious subject of how an artist has to compromise his artistic integrity to make a living. The film is about an unsuccessful film-director Kwok-Wing (Leslie Cheung) and his producer Chung (Law Kar-ying), who agrees to make Category III sex/porn movies for their financial stability. Their movie projects are financed by a gangster boss Pui (Paul Chun). Shu Qi and Karen Mok played the roles of the leading actresses in the movie. In the end, Wing finally decides not to compromise his artistic integrity by making a porn movie.
Meet Monica Velour
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Films about pornography
Actors Kim Cattrall, Brian Dennehy, Keith David, Tony Cox, Sam McMurray
Rating57% 2.898092.898092.898092.898092.89809
A young man meets his dream woman (and isn't the least bit troubled that she's a washed-up porn actress 30 years his senior) in this independent coming-of-age comedy. Tobe Hulbert (Dustin Ingram) is a 17-year-old high school graduate who is the working definition of a loser—he's nerdy and socially inept, he lives with his eccentric grandfather (Brian Dennehy), his closest friend, Kenny (Daniel Yelsky), is only 12 years old, and he drives a beat-up hot-dog wagon with a giant frankfurter bolted to the roof. Among his other obsessions, Tobe is fascinated with adult movies of the 1970s and '80s, and his favorite actress is Monica Velour (Kim Cattrall), who in her heyday was the hottest star in porn. When Tobe discovers there's a collector living in Indiana (Keith David) who is willing to buy his wagon for a good price and Monica Velour will be appearing at a gentleman's club nearby, he decides fate is smiling on him and hits the road. However, the "gentleman's club" turns out to be a sleazy dive and time hasn't been kind to Monica; when several patrons begin shouting insults at her, Tobe defends her honor and gets beat up for his trouble. Monica gratefully befriends Tobe and lets him stay at the trailer park she calls home; he begins to imagine he might have a chance with the woman of his dreams, but while she sees Tobe as a kindred spirit, she has bigger things to deal with, including a career that's going nowhere, an ugly relationship with her ex-husband, and a contentious battle to win back custody of her daughter.