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Boogie Nights is a 1997 American period drama film about a porn star's rise and fall in the 1970s and 1980s. It was written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson and starred Mark Wahlberg, Julianne Moore, Burt Reynolds, and others.
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.
There are 15 Oscar nominations among the cast - Julianne Moore (6, including Boogie Nights), Phillip Seymour Hoffman (4), and one each for Don Cheadle (Hotel Rwanda), John C. Reilly, (Chicago), William H. Macy (Fargo), Mark Wahlberg (The Departed) and Burt Reynolds (Boogie Nights).
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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A 1997 drama about the rise and fall of a porn star in 1970s Los Angeles. Watch the trailer, cast, reviews and more on Moviefone.
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