The Dirk Diggler Story (1988)

The Dirk Diggler Story

1988

Comedy Drama

Synopsis

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).

Credits

Director

Paul Thomas Anderson

Cast

Eddie Delcore as Reed Rothchild

Ernie Anderson as Narrator (uncredited)

Michael Stein as Dirk Diggler

Robert Ridgely as Jack Horner

Rusty Schwimmer as Candy Kane

Crew

Paul Thomas Anderson (Director of Photography)

Johann Benét (Key Makeup Artist)