Boogie Nights
Boogie Nights is a 1997 American period comedy-drama film written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. It is set in Los Angeles's San Fernando Valley and focuses on a young nightclub dishwasher who becomes a popular star of pornographic films, chronicling his rise in the Golden Age of Porn of the 1970s through his fall during the excesses of the 1980s. The film is an expansion of Anderson's mockumentary short film The Dirk Diggler Story (1988), and stars Mark Wahlberg, Julianne Moore, Burt Reynolds, Don Cheadle, John C. Reilly, William H. Macy, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Heather Graham.
Plot
In 1977, high-school dropout Eddie Adams is living with his father and emotionally abusive mother in Torrance, California. He works at a Reseda nightclub owned by Maurice Rodriguez, where he meets porn filmmaker Jack Horner. Interested in bringing Eddie into porn, Jack auditions him by watching him have sex with Rollergirl, a porn starlet who always wears skates.
Awards
Cast
- Alfred Molina
- Anne Fletcher
- Burt Reynolds
- Channon Roe
- Don Cheadle
- Heather Graham
- Jack Riley
- Joanna Gleason
- John C. Reilly
- John Doe
- Jon Brion
- Julianne Moore
- Laurel Holloman
- Luis Guzmán
- Mark Wahlberg
- Melora Walters
- Michael Jace
- Michael Penn
- Nicole Ari Parker
- Nina Hartley
- Philip Baker Hall
- Philip Seymour Hoffman
- Ricky Jay
- Robert Ridgely
- Skye Blue
- Thomas Jane
- Tom Lenk
- Tony Tedeschi
- Veronica Hart
- William H. Macy