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{{quote|''[[Interplay of Sex and Violence|"Murder is illegal, but if you take a picture of it you may get your name in a magazine or maybe win a Pulitzer Prize. However, sex is legal, but if you take a picture of that act, you can go to jail."]]''|Larry Flynt}}
''[[The People
This 1996 film was nominated for two [[Academy
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* [[Anything That Moves]]: Althea possibly.
* [[Bedlam House]]: Larry has to stay in one for fifteen months after an outburst in court gets him declared insane by the judge.
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* [[George Jetson Job Security]]:
** Larry fires his staff over the phone from a mental hospital.
** After he come back from his drugged up stupor in 1982, Larry fires the vice president in charge of marketing who was telling him about
* [[Girl
* [[Happier Home Movie]]: After one of the reporters asks Larry if he has any regrets, he lets them know he only has one then the scene cuts to him watching these.
* [[Hooker
* [[Interplay of Sex and Violence]]: Used to argumentative effect during a speech Larry makes about why what he does shouldn't be illegal as photos and scenes of violence and sex play Interspersed in the background.
* [[
* [[The
* [[Kavorka Man]]: Larry.
* [[Los Angeles]]: ''"I oughta move somewhere, where perverts are welcome."'' Cue his moving to LA.
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* [[Moral Guardians]]: Jerry Falwell and Charles Keating play this part in the movie as well as arguably in real life.
* [[News Monopoly]]: Flynt, with multiple TVs, turns them all on to different channels, and when he finds out they're all focused on what's going on at his house, lets out a war whoop of joy.
* [[Nouveau Riche]]: Althea plays this trope up when
* [[Prison]]: The setting a few times as Larry is ok with getting sent there to prove his points about Freedom of Speech.
* [[Polyamory]]: When Althea asks Larry if they can get married, he initially rejects the idea but then Althea lets him know that it's ok if they get married but aren't monogamous, at which point he agrees.
* [[Real Person Cameo]]: Larry Flynt portrays Judge Morrissey.
* [[Screw the Rules, I Have Money]]: One of Larry's primary ways of dealing with the US Court system as well as many other aspects of life.
* [[Stock Legal Phrases]]: When a good deal of the movie occurs in the courts, these are inevitable. At least one is averted when Larry refuses to "Do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you God?" as he has recently become an
* [[Versus Title]]
* [[Young Entrepreneur]]: The film starts with Larry and his brother bottling and selling home made moonshine at the respective ages of 10 and 8.
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