The Dirk Diggler Story

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).

• Paul Thomas AndersonDirector
• Paul Thomas AndersonWriter

• Michael SteinDirk Diggler
• Robert RidgelyJack Horner
• Eddie DelcoreReed Rothchild
• Rusty SchwimmerCandy Kane
• Ernie AndersonNarrator (uncredited)