

The Dirk Diggler Story
★ 5.2198831mReleased
ComedyDrama
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).
Director
Paul Thomas Anderson
Writer
Paul Thomas Anderson
Language
English
Top Cast

Michael Stein
Dirk Diggler

Robert Ridgely
Jack Horner
E
Eddie Delcore
Reed Rothchild

Rusty Schwimmer
Candy Kane

Ernie Anderson
Narrator (uncredited)















