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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 ...
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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 credits, including actors, writers, producers, composers, and more.
Boogie Nights is a 1997 drama film by Paul Thomas Anderson about the rise and fall of a porn star in the 1970s. The film features Mark Wahlberg, Burt Reynolds, Julianne Moore, and Heather Graham, and has a 94% critics rating and an 89% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes.
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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.
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- Mark Wahlberg as Eddie Adams / Dirk Diggler. Wahlberg stars in the film as teenage busboy Eddie, who adopts the persona of Dirk when he becomes a porn star sensation.
- Julianne Moore as Maggie / Amber Waves. Moore portrays Maggie, who is heavily involved in the production of Jack’s films and a porn actress under the stage name Amber Waves.
- Burt Reynolds as Jack Horner. Reynolds stars as Jack, a porn filmmaker who takes Eddie under his wing after meeting the busboy while he’s working at a nightclub.
- Don Cheadle as Buck Swope. Cheadle appears in the film as Buck Swope, a television store owner and porn star who is obsessed with cowboys and the Old West.
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Nov 8, 2021 · A film analysis of Paul Thomas Anderson's "Boogie Nights", a critique of the '70s and '80s film industry and culture. The ending reveals Dirk Diggler's prosthetic penis, a symbol of the collapse of the Golden Age of porn and film. The article also connects the film's themes of addiction, infidelity, and social movements.
