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Boogie Nights (1997)

Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson

Drama | Comedy

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Overview

Set in 1977, back when sex was safe, pleasure was a business and business was booming, idealistic porn producer Jack Horner aspires to elevate his craft to an art form. Horner discovers Eddie Adams, a hot young talent working as a busboy in a nightclub, and welcomes him into the extended family of movie-makers, misfits and hangers-on that are always around. Adams’ rise from nobody to a celebrity adult entertainer is meteoric, and soon the whole world seems to know his porn alter ego, “Dirk Diggler”. Now, when disco and drugs are in vogue, fashion is in flux and the party never seems to stop, Adams’ dreams of turning sex into stardom are about to collide with cold, hard reality.

Rated R | Length 156 minutes

Actors

Mark Wahlberg | Burt Reynolds | Julianne Moore | John C. Reilly | Heather Graham | Don Cheadle | Philip Seymour Hoffman | William H. Macy | Thomas Jane | Luis Guzmán | Melora Walters | Robert Ridgely | Ricky Jay | Nicole Ari Parker | Alfred Molina | Philip Baker Hall | Robert Downey Sr. | Nina Hartley | Laurel Holloman | Michael Penn | Michael Jace | Jack Wallace | Kai Lennox | Jonathan Quint | John Doe | Joanna Gleason | Lawrence Hudd | Rico Bueno | Samson Barkhordarian | Brad Braeden | Michael Stein | Stanley DeSantis | Patricia Forte | Jason Andrews | Lil' Cinderella | Greg Lauren | Tom Dorfmeister | Jason "Jake" Cross | Selwyn Emerson Miller | Jamielyn Lippman | Missy Spell Tanner | Raymond Laboriel | Jon Brion | Brian Kehew | Robin Sharp | Audrey Wiechman | Tim Soronen | Alexander D. Slanger | Tom Lenk | Lexi Leigh | Laura Gronewold | Vernon Guichard II | Tony Tedeschi | Leslie Redden | Gregory T. Daniel | Don Amendolia | Summer Cummings | Skye Blue | Veronica Hart | Jack Riley | Channon Roe | Mike Gunther | Michael Raye Smith | Michael S. Stencil | Dustin Courtney | Allan Graf | Jose Chaidez | B. Philly Johnson | Joe G.M. Chan | Goliath | Israel Juarbe | George Anthony Rae | Eric Winzenried | Sharon Ferrol-Young | Anne Fletcher | Scott Fowler | Melanie A. Gage | Eddie Garcia | Sebastian La Cause | Lance MacDonald | Diane Mizota | Nathan Prevost | Lisa Ratzin | Dee Dee Weathers | Darrel W. Wright | Michael Ballhaus | Greg Bronson | Grace Bustos | Jorga Caye | Tyrone D. Dixon | Theo Mayes | Coleman McClary | Jami Philbrick | Aaron Stielstra | Misty Tamburelli | Sean Welch

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Viewing Notes

Paul T Anderson’s best film. If you can get past the subject matter (some can’t) this is a funny, engaging film full of many memorable performances.

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