Boogie Nights (1997)
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.
Boogie Nights (1997)
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Released Year: 1997
Runtime: 155 minutes
Genre: Drama
Directors: Paul Thomas Anderson
Casts: Mark Wahlberg, Robert Downey Sr., Philip Baker Hall, Heather Graham, William H. Macy, Diane Mizota, Eric Winzenried, Nathan Prevost, Michael Jace, Jon Brion, Nicole Ari Parker, Anne Fletcher, Don Cheadle, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Tom Lenk, Greg Bronson, Kai Lennox, Stanley DeSantis, Ricky Jay, Julianne Moore, Thomas Jane, Alfred Molina, John C. Reilly, Jack Wallace, Allan Graf, Joanna Gleason, Luis Guzmán, Mike Gunther, Melora Walters, Eddie Garcia, Burt Reynolds, Melanie A. Gage, Channon Roe, Michael Penn, Scott Fowler, Laurel Holloman, Tim Soronen, Sebastian La Cause, Lance MacDonald, Alexander D. Slanger, Jason "Jake" Cross, Israel Juarbe, Rico Bueno, Jason Andrews, Greg Lauren, Robert Ridgely, Jack Riley, Veronica Hart, Samson Barkhordarian, Nina Hartley, Brad Braeden, Lawrence Hudd, Michael Stein, Patricia Forte, Lil' Cinderella, Tom Dorfmeister, Selwyn Emerson Miller, Jamielyn Lippman, Missy Spell Tanner, Raymond Laboriel, Brian Kehew, Robin Sharp, Audrey Wiechman, Lexi Leigh, Laura Gronewold, Vernon Guichard II, Tony Tedeschi, Leslie Redden, Gregory T. Daniel, Jonathan Quint, Don Amendolia, Summer Cummings, Skye Blue, John Doe, Michael Raye Smith, Michael S. Stencil, Dustin Courtney, Jose Chaidez, B. Philly Johnson, Joe G.M. Chan, Goliath, George Anthony Rae, Sharon Ferrol-Young, Lisa Ratzin, Dee Dee Weathers, Darrel W. Wright, Grace Bustos, Jorga Caye, Tyrone D. Dixon, Theo Mayes, Coleman McClary, Jami Philbrick, Misty Tamburelli, Sean Welch
IMDB: Boogie Nights (1997)
Storyline
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.
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Reviews
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New York Daily News -
Writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson has perfectly wedded form to function by filming Boogie Nights in a style suggesting the grainy texture of porn and the ambivalence of the era.
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The A.V. Club -
While it's very funny, Boogie Nights taps into something much deeper with its on-target depiction of the shifting political and social tides of the '70s and '80s and thoughtful relationships between characters. It's a deeply satisfying movie.
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TNT RoughCut -
As lensed brillantly by 26-year-old Anderson, the movie is at once tasteful and raunchy.
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Austin Chronicle -
From the second it begins, Boogie Nights seizes your senses and pulls you right in: no turning back, no time for debate, no regrets.
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San Francisco Examiner -
I'm not sure all of this works out as convincingly as Anderson intends in the movie's somewhat unsatisfying ending, but getting there is a wickedly enjoyable journey.
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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.
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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.
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.