Boogie Nights

1997 "The life of a dreamer, the days of a business, and the nights in between."
7.9| 2h36m| R| en
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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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Lovesusti The Worst Film Ever
Tedfoldol everything you have heard about this movie is true.
Spoonatects Am i the only one who thinks........Average?
Frances Chung Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable
Benedito Dias Rodrigues When l watched this movie on first time at HBO l was frightened about so daring subject on a movie,retelling the early years of porn industry and how it worked in those days,the director got put a perfect portrait of late 70' and next decade about to come which this kind of industry has a boom after VCR for home videos,all casting are colorful,but two characters were fantastic Diggler and Jack Horner,in the aftermatch Burt Reynolds has a revival of his career,Jeff Lynne was scared about ELO's Livin' Thing was set to movie soundtrack without his permission,but was convinced about the movie didn't was a porn movie anyway!!!Resume:First watch: 2000 / How many: 3 / Source: Cable TV-DVD / Rating: 8.5
heynow-ca I can watch this movie so many times and not get sick of it. One of my faves of all time, great characters and character development.
dandare4479 Boogie Nights is an ensemble cast of characters in 1970's and 1980's Los Angeles. It is also the first great piece of work from writer director Paul Thomas Anderson, whom has gone on to become one of the best American writer/directors working today. I enjoy Boogie Nights more then say Goodfellas and Short Cuts. I feel it is more accessible and its characters are all very likable. It definitely borrows from those earlier great works mentioned, it also has a fabulous soundtrack. Great performances from Mark Wahlberg, Burt Reynolds, Julianne Moore, and helped launch very successful careers for almost all of the supporting cast. The directing here is fantastic, the opening shot being a stand out and the shot following the lady into the swimming pool. A great scene later on with fire crackers is also brilliant. I highly recommend this film, however the subject matter may put some viewers off. It is a great piece of work from Paul Thomas Anderson and one of 1990's best films.
madahab Paul Thomas Anderson is somewhat of a frustration. He is a director with obvious talent but his films seem to have a very hollow center and feel more fragmentary than a complete film. Boogie Nights has a great energy and superficially present the early days of the adult entertainment industry. It is very loosely based on the career of John Holmes but does not really get into the darker aspects of his story when he was still making porn films while knowing that he was infected with the AIDS virus and probably infecting his unaware co stars. Like The Master Anderson really never goes too deep into the motivations of his characters and seems to focus on the more lurid aspects, wallowing in the excesses of the decade. There are plenty of great performances in the film and make it worth re watching periodically. The most sympathetic character is played Don Cheadle but I like the little family that forms amongst Burt Reynolds, Julianne Moore, Heather Graham, and Mark Walberg is genuinely sweet at times. But the excesses the era and the industry they are in cannot be entirely kept at bay and sets up the third act downward spiral. The soundtrack is spectacular and is a great sampler of the 70's but can be a bit overbearing at times in the course of the film, jumping from one song and going right into another...and then another. It is like a juke box that someone pumped a sack full of quarters into and you just want a little quiet time. I recommend to anyone interested in the subject to read a book called The Other Hollywood which expands on a lot of the subjects that Boogie Nights covers but with much more detail and insight into the darker aspects of adult pornography industry. Boogie Nights is flawed but has ambition.