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Boogie Nights
Boogie Nights is a 1997 American comedy-drama film written, directed, and co-produced by Paul Thomas Anderson. It is set in Los Angeles' 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, and Heather Graham.
Boogie Nights premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 11, 1997, and was theatrically released by New Line Cinema on October 10, 1997, garnering critical acclaim. It was nominated for three Academy Awards, including Best Original Screenplay for Anderson, Best Supporting Actress for Moore, and Best Supporting Actor for Reynolds. The film's soundtrack also received acclaim. It has since been considered one of Anderson's best works, one of the greatest films of the 1990s, and one of the best films of all time by Variety.
In 1977, high-school dropout Eddie Adams lives in Torrance, California with his parents. His mother is an alcoholic and emotionally and physically abusive. Eddie works at a Reseda nightclub owned by Maurice Rodriguez, where he meets porn filmmaker Jack Horner. Interested in bringing Eddie into the industry, Jack auditions the latter by watching him be fellated by "Rollergirl", a porn starlet who wears roller skates.
After a fight with his mother, Eddie moves into Jack's San Fernando Valley home. Eddie gives himself the screen name "Dirk Diggler" and becomes a star due to his good looks, youthful charisma, and abnormally large penis. His success allows him to buy a new house, an extensive wardrobe, and a "competition orange" 1977 Chevrolet Corvette. With his friend and co-star Reed Rothchild, Dirk pitches a series of successful action-themed porn films. He works and socializes with others from the porn industry, and they live carefree lifestyles in the late 1970s disco era. While attending a New Year's Eve party at Horner's house, assistant director Little Bill Thompson discovers his adulterous wife having sex with another man. Bill, tired of being repeatedly cheated on, shoots the pair dead and then commits suicide.
Dirk and Reed soon begin using cocaine on a regular basis. Due to his drug use, Dirk finds it increasingly difficult to achieve an erection and falls into violent mood swings. Dirk becomes irritated with Johnny Doe, a rival leading man recruited by Jack, who he worries will replace him. In 1983, after arguing with Jack, Dirk is fired and takes off with Reed to start a music career along with Scotty, a boom operator who is in love with Dirk.
Jack rejects business overtures from Floyd Gondolli, a local theater magnate who insists on cutting costs by shooting on videotape rather than film stock, because Jack believes that video will diminish the quality of his films. However, after his friend and financier Colonel James is incarcerated for possession of child pornography, Jack agrees to cooperate with him, quickly becoming disillusioned with the new work. One project involves Jack and Rollergirl riding in a limousine and finding random men for her to have sex with while being taped. One man recognizes Rollergirl as a former high-school classmate and, after a failed attempt at intercourse, insults her and Jack. Both Jack and Rollergirl attack the man, leaving him bloodied on the sidewalk.
Meanwhile, leading lady Amber Waves loses a custody battle to her ex-husband as the court determines that she is an unfit mother due to her involvement in the porn industry, criminal record, and cocaine addiction. Buck Swope marries fellow porn star Jessie St. Vincent, who becomes pregnant. Because of his past as a pornographer, Buck is disqualified from a bank loan and cannot open his own stereo equipment store. That night, he finds himself in the middle of a holdup at a donut shop in which the clerk, the robber, and an armed customer are killed. Buck is the sole survivor and escapes with the money.
Having spent most of their money on drugs, Dirk and Reed are unable to pay a recording studio in order to make demo tapes. Desperate, Dirk resorts to prostitution but he is assaulted and robbed by three men. Dirk, Reed, and their friend Todd Parker attempt to scam local drug dealer Rahad Jackson at his estate by selling him a half-kilo of baking soda disguised as cocaine. Dirk and Reed intend to leave before Rahad's bodyguard can inspect the fake drug, but a drugged-up and armed Todd attempts to steal drugs and money from Rahad. In the ensuing gunfight, Todd kills Rahad's bodyguard and is killed by Rahad, while Dirk and Reed narrowly escape. Dirk returns to Jack's home and they reconcile.
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Boogie Nights
Boogie Nights is a 1997 American comedy-drama film written, directed, and co-produced by Paul Thomas Anderson. It is set in Los Angeles' 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, and Heather Graham.
Boogie Nights premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 11, 1997, and was theatrically released by New Line Cinema on October 10, 1997, garnering critical acclaim. It was nominated for three Academy Awards, including Best Original Screenplay for Anderson, Best Supporting Actress for Moore, and Best Supporting Actor for Reynolds. The film's soundtrack also received acclaim. It has since been considered one of Anderson's best works, one of the greatest films of the 1990s, and one of the best films of all time by Variety.
In 1977, high-school dropout Eddie Adams lives in Torrance, California with his parents. His mother is an alcoholic and emotionally and physically abusive. Eddie works at a Reseda nightclub owned by Maurice Rodriguez, where he meets porn filmmaker Jack Horner. Interested in bringing Eddie into the industry, Jack auditions the latter by watching him be fellated by "Rollergirl", a porn starlet who wears roller skates.
After a fight with his mother, Eddie moves into Jack's San Fernando Valley home. Eddie gives himself the screen name "Dirk Diggler" and becomes a star due to his good looks, youthful charisma, and abnormally large penis. His success allows him to buy a new house, an extensive wardrobe, and a "competition orange" 1977 Chevrolet Corvette. With his friend and co-star Reed Rothchild, Dirk pitches a series of successful action-themed porn films. He works and socializes with others from the porn industry, and they live carefree lifestyles in the late 1970s disco era. While attending a New Year's Eve party at Horner's house, assistant director Little Bill Thompson discovers his adulterous wife having sex with another man. Bill, tired of being repeatedly cheated on, shoots the pair dead and then commits suicide.
Dirk and Reed soon begin using cocaine on a regular basis. Due to his drug use, Dirk finds it increasingly difficult to achieve an erection and falls into violent mood swings. Dirk becomes irritated with Johnny Doe, a rival leading man recruited by Jack, who he worries will replace him. In 1983, after arguing with Jack, Dirk is fired and takes off with Reed to start a music career along with Scotty, a boom operator who is in love with Dirk.
Jack rejects business overtures from Floyd Gondolli, a local theater magnate who insists on cutting costs by shooting on videotape rather than film stock, because Jack believes that video will diminish the quality of his films. However, after his friend and financier Colonel James is incarcerated for possession of child pornography, Jack agrees to cooperate with him, quickly becoming disillusioned with the new work. One project involves Jack and Rollergirl riding in a limousine and finding random men for her to have sex with while being taped. One man recognizes Rollergirl as a former high-school classmate and, after a failed attempt at intercourse, insults her and Jack. Both Jack and Rollergirl attack the man, leaving him bloodied on the sidewalk.
Meanwhile, leading lady Amber Waves loses a custody battle to her ex-husband as the court determines that she is an unfit mother due to her involvement in the porn industry, criminal record, and cocaine addiction. Buck Swope marries fellow porn star Jessie St. Vincent, who becomes pregnant. Because of his past as a pornographer, Buck is disqualified from a bank loan and cannot open his own stereo equipment store. That night, he finds himself in the middle of a holdup at a donut shop in which the clerk, the robber, and an armed customer are killed. Buck is the sole survivor and escapes with the money.
Having spent most of their money on drugs, Dirk and Reed are unable to pay a recording studio in order to make demo tapes. Desperate, Dirk resorts to prostitution but he is assaulted and robbed by three men. Dirk, Reed, and their friend Todd Parker attempt to scam local drug dealer Rahad Jackson at his estate by selling him a half-kilo of baking soda disguised as cocaine. Dirk and Reed intend to leave before Rahad's bodyguard can inspect the fake drug, but a drugged-up and armed Todd attempts to steal drugs and money from Rahad. In the ensuing gunfight, Todd kills Rahad's bodyguard and is killed by Rahad, while Dirk and Reed narrowly escape. Dirk returns to Jack's home and they reconcile.