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Release Date: 2000

Cast: James Woods, Craig T. Nelson, Diana Scarwid

Categories: Movies, Courtroom Drama, Drama Film

Dirty Pictures is a 2000 American docudrama directed by Frank Pierson. The teleplay by Ilene Chaiken focuses on the 1990 trial of Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center director Dennis Barrie, who was accused of promoting pornography by presenting an exhibit of photographs by Robert Mapplethorpe that included images of naked children and graphic displays of homosexual sadomasochism. The film premiered on Showtime on May 20, 2000. It later was released on both videotape and DVD. Dennis Barrie books a potentially controversial exhibit of Robert Mapplethorpe of nude photography for the... MORE

Dirty Pictures is a 2000 American docudrama directed by Frank Pierson. The teleplay by Ilene Chaiken focuses on the 1990 trial of Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center director Dennis Barrie, who was accused of promoting pornography by presenting an exhibit of photographs by Robert Mapplethorpe that included images of naked children and graphic displays of homosexual sadomasochism. The film premiered on Showtime on May 20, 2000. It later was released on both videotape and DVD. Dennis Barrie books a potentially controversial exhibit of Robert Mapplethorpe of nude photography for the Contemporary Arts Center and, with the support of his board of directors, opts to keep it on the schedule even after the prestigious Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC cancels it from their orface. Even before the exhibit opens, controversy about its content arises and is fueled by the local media, and after it does, Barrie is indicted and put on trial on pandering and obscenity charges, and he and his family become the center of the highly charged case. As time passes, they become the targets of ongoing harassment and ridicule, are ostracized by their friends, offered a substantial bribe by the LESS