Alfred Molina, Burt Reynolds, Don Cheadle
A dark comedy following the rise and fall of Eddie Adams, a handsome, uneducated teenager who works in the kitchen of a popular San Fernando Valley nightclub. Back at home, Eddie has to face the oppre...( read more
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DVD Release Date: April 7, 1998
Stats: 6,309 reviews
I've got to change my previous rating of this classic PTA film from a 4 to a 4.5 inching towards a perfect score with every viewing. This film is so epic, telling the rise and fall of Dirk Diggler, the HUGE pornstar played by Marky Mark. This movie made his acting career. If n...( read more)
A stylish but badly structured film from PTA. Burt Reynolds performance is brilliant, as are most of the cast but on the whole, it's a very overrated film for me.
"Everyone has one special thing"
The story of a young man's adventures in the Californian pornography industry of the 1970s and 1980s.REVIEW
Paul Thomas Anderson's 1997 film "Boogie Nights" is...( read more)
Boogie Nights is perhaps one of the greatest examples any would-be filmmaker should take a long hard look at. Sure, you could spend loads of quality time reviewing the classics from Hitchcock to Scorsese; but lets follow suit for the modern generation and study half-heartedly.
Pa...( read more)
Boogie Nights is full of surprises, nothing quite prepares one for it its soul. Yes, it does have soul, whilst tackling the tackiest of subject matter, with both a wry smile and respect. Brillantly cast and wonderful character development, the performances somehow combine the bes...( read more)
pretty solid film by paul thomas anderson, unfortunately this is not a really good introduction to the world, he didnt showed us his own style much enough with this movie, this is lack of originality, it feels too scorsese, it looks too scorsese, he even using a 'typical-scorsese...( read more)
When this came out in 1997 I was just starting to realize that Burt Reynolds was in the right place at the right time as far as his acting career was concern. Looking back on most of his movies, the answer to his stardom, there just wasn't any other actors around to give him a ch...( read more)
Like the Goodfellas of porn, Boogie Nights is a epic film full of intrigueing and somewhat touching characters closely following their lives as the story develops. The directing and acting in the film are spectacular espicallly the performance by Burt Reynolds.
My friends and I still quote this movie to this day. 11 years after we saw it! I can't hear Jessie's Girl or hear a firecracker without thinking of this movie!
A near flawless film. An overlooked masterpiece. Don't let the porn backdrop throw you off. A must own for any movie buff.
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