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Seen on: 02/12/2012

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Boogie Nights (1997)

Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson

Drama

Most recently watched by BTSjunkie

Overview

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.

Rated R | Length 156 minutes

Actors

Jon Brion | Alfred Molina | Julianne Moore | Philip Seymour Hoffman | Don Cheadle | Michael Ballhaus | William H. Macy | Stanley DeSantis | Philip Baker Hall | John C. Reilly | Melora Walters | Ricky Jay | Thomas Jane | Mark Wahlberg | Diane Mizota | Don Amendolia | Burt Reynolds | Laurel Holloman | Joanna Gleason | Kai Lennox | Jack Wallace | Robert Ridgely | Anne Fletcher | Allan Graf | Michael Penn | Luis Guzmán | John Doe | Summer Cummings | Michael Jace | Rico Bueno | Robert Downey Sr. | Jack Riley | Tom Lenk | Heather Graham | Nina Hartley | Nicole Ari Parker | Alexander D. Slanger | Channon Roe | Veronica Hart | Grace Bustos | Mike Gunther | Tony Tedeschi | Skye Blue | Greg Lauren | Israel Juarbe | Scott Fowler | Jason Andrews | Michael Stein | Aaron Stielstra | Jason "Jake" Cross | Lance MacDonald | Greg Bronson | Eddie Garcia | Tom Dorfmeister | Dustin Courtney | Theo Mayes | Goliath | Eric Winzenried | Patricia Forte | Gregory T. Daniel | Brian Kehew | Tim Soronen | Jamielyn Lippman | Leslie Redden | Lisa Ratzin | Dee Dee Weathers | Sharon Ferrol-Young | Samson Barkhordarian | Brad Braeden | Lawrence Hudd | Lil' Cinderella | Selwyn Emerson Miller | Missy Spell Tanner | Raymond Laboriel | Robin Sharp | Audrey Wiechman | Laura Gronewold | Vernon Guichard II | Jonathan Quint | Michael Raye Smith | Michael S. Stencil | Jose Chaidez | B. Philly Johnson | Joe G.M. Chan | George Anthony Rae | Melanie A. Gage | Sebastian La Cause | Nathan Prevost | Darrel W. Wright | Jorga Caye | Tyrone D. Dixon | Coleman McClary | Jami Philbrick | Misty Tamburelli | Sean Welch | Lexi Leigh | Sal Sodano | Arnold Montey

Viewing Notes

I had kept it pretty much a secret that hadn’t seen this even though I’m a huge PTA fan. Not sure what the delay was but it made for a pretty incredible Sunday evening watch!

Everyone else has seen this so I’ll just say I loved it and was really digging how “off” everyone was. It was like everyone was pretending to be a porn star trying to act in a serious biopic. Works great for Wahlberg’s wide-eyed dummy style acting and some of the supporting cast (Reilly and Hoffman especially) are just completely out of their heads in this.

The sequence with Molina near the end is just spectacular. SO intense. Loved it.

Will be watching this again quite soon.

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