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Boogie Nights is a 1997 American period drama film written, directed, and co-produced by Paul Thomas Anderson. It is set in Los Angeles 's 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 ...
Find out who starred in and worked behind the scenes of the 1997 comedy-drama film Boogie Nights, directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. See the full cast and crew list, including actors, writers, producers, composers, and more.
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- WAHLBERG INITIALLY DIDN’T WANT TO BE IN THE MOVIE, BECAUSE OF SHOWGIRLS. At this stage in Mark Wahlberg’s career, he had a hit song under the name Marky Mark, had done The Basketball Diaries—which is how Anderson discovered him—and was basically an underwear model.
- BURT REYNOLDS DISLIKED PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON AND THE MOVIE. It’s no secret the pair didn’t get along on set. Reynolds, who played porn filmmaker Jack Horner, recently told GQ why their personalities clashed.
- REYNOLDS AND ANDERSON NEARLY CAME TO PHYSICAL BLOWS. Everybody on the set knew Reynolds had a temper, and everybody knew the director and Reynolds didn’t quite get along.
- ANDERSON THINKS A GOOD PORN STAR NAME SHOULD HAVE TWO “G”S AND ONE “K” IN IT. The director told NPR he’s not sure how he came up with the name Dirk Diggler, but for some reason he wrote the name down on an index card when he was 17 years old.
In the San Fernando Valley in 1977, teenage busboy Eddie Adams (Mark Wahlberg) gets discovered by porn director Jack Horner (Burt Reynolds), who transforms him into...
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Oct 10, 2022 · Set in 1977, the Paul Thomas Anderson-directed period comedy-drama follows young busboy Eddie Adams (Mark Wahlberg) as he gets discovered by porn director Jack...
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Nov 8, 2021 · A film analysis of Paul Thomas Anderson's "Boogie Nights", a 1970s-set drama about the porn industry. The ending reveals the contrast between the '70s and '80s, the characters' fates, and the prosthetic penis of Dirk Diggler.
