Flagpole Special(1998)

Name: Flagpole Special
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Released: 1998-01-01
Duration: 17 min
Cast: Chris Penn, John C. Reilly

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Chris Penn John C. Reilly

Commissioned for Creative Time’s RET.inevitable in 1998, Paul Thomas Anderson’s Flagpole Special is a DV short showing John C. Reilly and Chris Penn from the waist down, riffing on pickup-seminar bravado that anticipates Magnolia’s “Seduce and Destroy.” Screened once under the Brooklyn Bridge and never released, it’s now regarded as a lost film.