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Boogie Nights is a american film of genre Drama directed by Paul Thomas Anderson released in USA on 31 october 1997 with Mark Wahlberg
Boogie Nights (1997)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 31 october 1997
Length 2h36
Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson
OriginUSA
Themes Films about families, Medical-themed films, Films about music and musicians, Films about drugs, Films about sexuality, Films about television, Films about pornography, Musical films, Buddy films
Rating78%
Boogie Nights is a 1997 American drama film written, produced and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. It is set in Los Angeles' San Fernando Valley and focuses on a young nightclub dishwasher, Eddie Adams, who becomes a popular star of pornographic films, chronicling his rise in the Golden Age of Porn of the 1970s through to his fall during the excesses of the '80s. The film is an expansion of Anderson's mockumentary short film The Dirk Diggler Story (1988).
Synopsis
In 1977, Eddie Adams is a high school dropout who lives with his stepfather and emotionally abusive alcoholic mother in Torrance, California. He works at a Reseda nightclub owned by Maurice Rodriguez, where he is discovered by porn director Jack Horner, who auditions him by watching him have sex with Rollergirl, a porn starlet who always wears skates. After a heated argument with his mother about his girlfriend and sex life, Adams moves in with Horner at his San Fernando Valley home.Actors
Mark Wahlberg
(Eddie Adams / Dirk Diggler)
Julianne Moore
(Amber Waves)
Burt Reynolds
(Jack Horner)
Don Cheadle
(Buck Swope)
John C. Reilly
(Reed Rothchild)
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