The Dirk Diggler Story

Overview

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).

Cast

Michael Stein

Dirk Diggler

Robert Ridgely

Jack Horner

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Eddie Delcore

Reed Rothchild

Rusty Schwimmer

Candy Kane

Ernie Anderson

Narrator (uncredited)

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