Boogie Nights

Oct 7, 1997

2h 36m

★ 7.6

The life of a dreamer, the days of a business and the nights in between.

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.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

New Line Cinema

Lawrence Gordon Productions

Ghoulardi Film Company

Boogie Nights Trailers

Cast

Eddie Adams / Dirk Diggler

Mark Wahlberg

Jack Horner

Burt Reynolds

Amber Waves

Julianne Moore

Reed Rothchild

John C. Reilly

Rollergirl

Heather Graham

Buck Swope

Don Cheadle

Scotty J.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Little Bill

William H. Macy

Todd Parker

Thomas Jane

Maurice t.t. Rodriguez

Luis Guzmán

Jessie St. Vincent

Melora Walters

The Colonel James

Robert Ridgely

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