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Cast

Michael Stein

Michael Stein

Dirk Diggler

Robert Ridgely

Robert Ridgely

Jack Horner

Eddie Delcore

Eddie Delcore

Reed Rothchild

Rusty Schwimmer

Rusty Schwimmer

Candy Kane

Ernie Anderson

Ernie Anderson

Narrator (uncredited)

Crew

Paul Thomas Anderson

Paul Thomas Anderson

Director

Paul Thomas Anderson

Paul Thomas Anderson

Director of Photography

Paul Thomas Anderson

Paul Thomas Anderson

Writer

Shane Conrad

Shane Conrad

Producer

Stan Bush

Stan Bush

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Johann Benét

Johann Benét

Key Makeup Artist

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The Dirk Diggler Story

19885.1 / 1031 min
Comedy, Drama

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).