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This film is produced by Lynn Harris and JoAnne Sellar.
“This is the film I want them to remember me by,” declares porn auteur Jack Horner (Burt Reynolds, in a career performance). Though there’s plenty of competition, Paul Thomas Anderson could easily claim this, his sophomore feature, as his bid for posterity. Brilliant acting by Anderson’s stock company and the writer-director’s sensitive approach make Boogie Nights “a big, bright, shining star” in the firmament of American film.
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 (Mark Wahlberg) 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." But, Adams' dreams of turning sex into stardom are about to collide with cold, hard reality.
Reviews
"Paul Thomas Anderson‘s “Boogie Nights” is an epic of the low road, a classic Hollywood story set in the shadows instead of the spotlights but containing the same ingredients: Fame, envy, greed, talent, sex, money." –Roger Ebert
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