Boogie Nights (1997)
Release: October 10, 1997 | Runtime: 2h 36m | Rating: 7.6
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.
The life of a dreamer, the days of a business and the nights in between.
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Main cast
- Mark Wahlberg as Eddie Adams / Dirk Diggler
- Burt Reynolds as Jack Horner
- Julianne Moore as Amber Waves
- John C. Reilly as Reed Rothchild
- Heather Graham as Rollergirl
- Don Cheadle as Buck Swope
- Philip Seymour Hoffman as Scotty J.
- William H. Macy as Little Bill
- Thomas Jane as Todd Parker
- Luis Guzmán as Maurice t.t. Rodriguez
- Melora Walters as Jessie St. Vincent
- Robert Ridgely as The Colonel James
- Ricky Jay as Kurt Longjohn
- Nicole Ari Parker as Becky Barnett
- Alfred Molina as Rahad Jackson
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FAQ
What is Boogie Nights about?
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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