Boogie Nights (1997)

10/10/1997 (US) • 2h 36m

Drama

The life of a dreamer, the days of a business and the nights in between.

Overview

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 Diggler". Now, when disco and drugs are in vogue, fashion is in flux and the party never seems to stop, Adams' dreams of turning sex into stardom are about to collide with cold, hard reality.

Top Billed Cast

Mark Wahlberg

Eddie Adams / Dirk Diggler

Burt Reynolds

Jack Horner

Julianne Moore

Amber Waves

John C. Reilly

Reed Rothchild

Heather Graham

Rollergirl

Don Cheadle

Buck Swope

William H. Macy

Little Bill

Thomas Jane

Todd Parker


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Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

$15,000,000.00

Revenue

$43,101,594.00

Keywords

new year's eve

adultery

pornography

robbery

husband wife relationship

drug abuse

1970s

cocaine

porn actor

custody battle

rags to riches

coming of age

alter ego

los angeles, california

drugs

porn industry

disco

voyeurism

curious

1980s

candid

big dick

mother son relationship

introspective

dramatic

admiring

audacious

euphoric

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