Paul Thomas Anderson's (Magnolia) second venture as a writer-director and featuring an all-star ensemble cast, Boogie Nights tells of a...
Paul Thomas Anderson's (Magnolia) second venture as a writer-director and featuring an all-star ensemble cast, Boogie Nights tells of a young man's adventures in the L.A. porn industry of the late '70s and early '80s.
Set in 1977, back when sex was safe, and the pleasure business was booming, idealistic porn producer Jack Horner (Burt Reynolds) aspires to elevate his craft to an art form. Horner discovers Eddie Adams (Mark Wahlberg), 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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"Considering the potentially explosive nature of the yarn, set in the porn world, Anderson's strategy is remarkably nonjudgmental and nonsensationalistic, largely due to his love and respect for all the characters and his impressive storytelling skills."
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Variety
Variety"A staggering blend of GoodFellas style, Pulp Fiction wit and good, rocking sex."
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Total Film
Total Film"In terms of sweep, ambition and precocious cinematic competence, it heralds the arrival of a new talent."
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Time Out
Time Out"Everything about Boogie Nights is interestingly unexpected, even the few seconds of darkness before the film's neon title blasts onto the screen. The director, Paul Thomas Anderson, [displays talent that] is as big and exuberant as skywriting."
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The New York Times
The New York Times"As a writer and director, Paul Thomas Anderson is a skilled reporter who fills his screen with understated, authentic details."
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Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert"The film is bemused and entertained, as we are, by this pack of sexual extremists, and the eye it casts on them is both benevolent and wry."
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Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times"Boogie Nights is loaded with lascivious colour, poisoned with lacerating traumas and pumped full of wit. Better than sex. Very nearly."
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Empire Magazine
Empire MagazineBoogie Nights | Details
Award winner- Winner of Best Supporting Actor (Reynolds), 1998 Golden Globes; Metro Media Award winner (Anderson), 1997 Toronto International Film Festival.
- Rating
- R18+, Medium level sex scenes, medium level violence, drug use
- Runtime
- 155
- Genre
- Drama
- Country of origin
- USA
