Boogie Nights (1997)
Average Rating: 8.1/10
Reviews Counted: 65
Fresh: 60 | Rotten: 5
Grounded in strong characters, bold themes, and subtle storytelling, Boogie Nights is a groundbreaking film both for director P.T. Anderson and star Mark Wahlberg.
Average Rating: 8.7/10
Critic Reviews: 12
Fresh: 12 | Rotten: 0
Grounded in strong characters, bold themes, and subtle storytelling, Boogie Nights is a groundbreaking film both for director P.T. Anderson and star Mark Wahlberg.
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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
Oct 17, 1997 Wide
Apr 7, 1998
New Line Cinema
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Cast
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Mark Wahlberg
Eddie Adams/Dirk Diggle... -
Burt Reynolds
Jack Horner -
Julianne Moore
Amber Waves -
John C. Reilly
Reed Rothchild -
Don Cheadle
Buck Swope -
Heather Graham
Rollergirl -
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Scotty -
William H. Macy
Little Bill -
Luis Guzman
Maurice T. Rodriguez -
Alfred Molina
Rahad Jackson -
Robert Ridgely
The Colonel -
Ricky Jay
Kurt Longjohn -
Philip Baker Hall
Floyd Gondolli -
Nina Hartley
Little Bill's Wife -
Melora Walters
Jessie St. Vincent -
Nicole Ari Parker
Becky Barnett -
Thomas Jane
Todd Parker -
Laurel Holloman
Eddie's Girlfriend
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All Critics (65) | Top Critics (12) | Fresh (67) | Rotten (5) | DVD (38)
Boogie Nights, an epic tale of porn, pleasure, and excess, offers a purer hit of exhilaration than any movie this year.
Not since the mysteriously reclusive Terrence Malick has there been such an explosion of sheer talent on the American movie scene.
Considering the potentially explosive nature of the yarn, set in the porn world, Anderson's strategy is remarkably nonjudgmental and nonsensationalistic, largely due to his love and respect for all the characters and his impressive storytelling skills.
In terms of sweep, ambition and precocious cinematic competence, it heralds the arrival of a new talent.
With Boogie Nights we know we're not just watching episodes from disparate lives but a panorama of recent social history, rendered in bold, exuberant colors.
The film is bemused and entertained, as we are, by this pack of sexual extremists, and the eye it casts on them is both benevolent and wry.
Unflinching look at porn industry; lots of sex, drugs.
One of the quintessential works of the New American Independent Cinema of the late 1990s, which gets better and better as time goes by, as the DVD demonstrates.
An epic story of self-delusion with a skill and grace that many more experienced filmmakers would be hard put to match.
Comparisons are invidious, but inescapable: Boogie Nights is the most stunningly accomplished, attention-grabbing movie by a sophomore director since Pulp Fiction.
It has passion to spare. It never slows down. The energy is everywhere. (Blu-ray Edition)
...loud, gaudy, profane, thoughtful, and risqué; you can't say it isn't fun in its own exuberant way.
Call it the consummate example of director-as-DJ, at least for now.
The flashy style cannot hide the slight story.
...Paul Thomas Anderson cements his reputation as one of the most gifted filmmakers of his generation...
Probably the most enjoyable complete overrated swipe ever made.
Aaaaw man, P.T. sure loves to move that camera around, and as a MAJOR fan of the general look and feel of movies, I totally got into his groove.
Anderson eloquently blends these characters together for a tantalizing seriocomic medley. He keeps his proceedings glossy and tantalizing, while steady and harshly real.
This film will hit a huge chord with those who weren't in diapers in the 70's, but people who missed the era should find penty to enjoy as well.
An original film about a little-done subject, providing good acting and an interesting story.
I would be lying if I said that Boogie Nights is anything but a perfect movie; at the very least, it is a film that delivers everything I am looking for in a film.
Audience Reviews for Boogie Nights
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- Jack Horner: Heaven sent you here to this place, Dirk Diggler. You've been blessed.
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- Jack Horner: It seems to me, beneath those jeans, there's something wonderful just waiting to get out.
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- Eddie Adams/Dirk Diggler: I'm seventeen
- Jack Horner: You're a seventeen year old piece of gold.
- Eddie Adams/Dirk Diggler: Yeah, right.
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- Maurice T. Rodriguez: You are the foxiest bitch in ten countries.
- Amber Waves: You're such a charmer.
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- Rollergirl: [about Dirk] He can fuck really hard or he can fuck really gently. He's the best.
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- Eddie Adams/Dirk Diggler: [standing in the kitchen at work with Jack] So, you want five or ten?
- Jack Horner: What?
- Eddie Adams/Dirk Diggler: Well, if you just wanna see me jack off, it's ten. But if you just wanna look at it, it's only five.
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