‘The People vs. Larry Flynt’

In its excesses and extravagances, its fascination with sex, religion, celebrity, bad taste and making a whole lot of money, there is no more American story than that of combative pornographer and Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt. Czech-born Milos Forman has had the clarity to turn it into a provocative and engrossing motion picture starring Woody Harrelson and Courtney Love (pictured) (HBO Saturday at 9 p.m.).