Stars: Mark Wahlberg, Burt Reynolds, Julianne Moore, Heather Graham, Veronica Hart, Alfred Molina, Jack Wallace, Joanna Gleason, Ricky Jay, John Doe, John C. Reilly, Luis Guzman, Laurel Holloman, William H. Macy, Don Cheadle, Thomas Jane, Tony Tedeschi, Michael Jace, Melora Walters, Skye Blue, Rico Bueno, Summer Cummings, Philip Baker Hall, Nina Hartley, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Greg Lauren, Lexi Leigh, Jonathan Quint, Robert Ridgely, Robert Downey Jr

Director: Paul Thomas Anderson

Summary: An amusing expose of the pornography industry which sees seventeen-year-old Eddie spotted in a disco by Jack, a veteran porn director. Jack senses that the virile and well-endowed young man can make him very rich. As a result, Eddie emerges as Dirk Diggler who is always pleased to see you...

It's Los Angeles, 1977, and adult film director Jack Horner (Burt Reynolds) meets Eddie Adams (Mark Wahlberg), a well-endowed dishwasher in a nightclub. Jack recruits Eddie to be his newest star and Eddie, hungry for fame, quickly agrees, changing his name to Dirk Diggler. Soon Dirk is the hottest star in the porn industry, alongside Rollergirl (Heather Graham), a high school dropout who never removes her roller skates, and Amber Waves (Julianne Moore), the veteran star who pines for the son she's not allowed to visit. On the fringes, Little Bill (William H. Macy) fumes while his wife cheats on him in public, and Buck Swope (Don Cheadle) tries to escape the stigma of being a porn actor. The good times roll, but before long Dirk falls victim to the pressures of stardom and a drug habit that ruins his career while Jack struggles with porn's conversion from film to cheaper videotapes. Director Paul Thomas Anderson's breakthrough film is an exhilarating ride along the underbelly of the 1970s inspired by the films of Altman and Scorsese, featuring colorful camera work, a dynamic soundtrack, and excellent performances from the entire cast, most notably Reynolds in an Oscar-nominated comeback role.

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Even if the notorious 1970s porn-filmmaking milieu doesn't exactly turn you on, don't let it turn you off to this movie's extraordinary virtues, either. Boogie Nightsis one of the key movies of the 1990s and among the most ambitious and exuberantly alive American movies in years. It's also the breakthrough for an amazing new director, whose dazzling kaleidoscopic style here recalls the Robert Altman of Nashvilleand the Martin Scorsese of Good Fellas. Although loosely based on the sleazy life and times of real-life porn legend John Holmes, at heart it's a classic Hollywood rise-and-fall fable: a naive, good-looking young busboy is discovered in a San Fernando Valley disco by a famous motion picture producer, becomes a hotshot movie star, lives the high life and then loses everything when he gets too big for his britches, succumbs to insobriety and is left behind by new times and new technology. Of course, it isn't exactly A Star Is Bornor Singin' in the Rain. Writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson (in only his second feature!) puts his own affectionately sardonic twist on the old showbiz biopic formula: the ambitious upstart changes his name and achieves stardom in porno films as "Dirk Diggler." Instead of drinking to excess, he snorts cocaine (the classic drug of 70s hedonism); and it's the coming of home video (rather than talkies) that helps to dash his big-screen dreams. As for the britches ... well, the controversial "money shot" explains everything. And the cast is one of the great ensembles of the 90s, including Oscar nominees Burt Reynolds and Julianne Moore, Mark Wahlberg (who really can act--from the waist up, too!), Heather Graham (as Rollergirl), William H. Macy, John C. Reilly and Ricky Jay. --Jim Emerson

Aspect Ratio:	16:9 Wide Screen
Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Special Features:	Interviews, Interactive Menu
Subtitles:	English
Year:	1997
Release Date:	May 21, 1999
Runtime:	149 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	E D V 9004
Label:	New Line Home Video
Keywords:	Nights, Comedy, General, Wide, Screen, Boogie
Genre:	Comedy