World Famous Comics: Boogie Nights (New Line Platinum Series)
Boogie Nights (New Line Platinum Series)
Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Burt Reynolds, John C. Reilly, Julianne Moore, Heather Graham Directed By: Paul Thomas Anderson Average Rating: Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1 Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: DVD Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Special Edition, Widescreen, NTSC Label: New Line Home Video Number of Items: 2 Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen Region Code: 1 Release Date: August 29, 2000 Running Time: 155 minutes Theatrical Release Date: October 10, 1997
Product Description: From Hollywood's hottest new director comes the outrageous epic that throws the covers back on California's adult entertainment industry in the swinging seventies. It's a touching and often humorous portrait of a most unusual family of filmakers broughtRunning Time: 155 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY UPC: 794043503320
Amazon.com essential video: Even if the notorious 1970s porn-filmmaking milieu doesn't exactly turn you on, don't let it turn you off to this movie's extraordinary virtues, either. Boogie Nights is one of the key movies of the 1990s, and among the most ambitious and exuberantly alive American movies in years. It's also the breakthrough for an amazing new director, whose dazzling kaleidoscopic style here recalls the Robert Altman of Nashville and the Martin Scorsese of GoodFellas. Although loosely based on the sleazy life and times of real-life porn legend John Holmes, at heart it's a classic Hollywood rise-and-fall fable: a naive, good-looking young busboy is discovered in a San Fernando Valley disco by a famous motion picture producer, becomes a hotshot movie star, lives the high life, and then loses everything when he gets too big for his britches, succumbs to insobriety, and is left behind by new times and new technology. Of course, it ain't exactly A Star Is Born or Singin' in the Rain. Writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson (in only his second feature!) puts his own affectionately sardonic twist on the old showbiz biopic formula: the ambitious upstart changes his name and achieves stardom in porno films as "Dirk Diggler." Instead of drinking to excess, he snorts cocaine (the classic drug of '70s hedonism); and it's the coming of home video (rather than talkies) that helps to dash his big-screen dreams. As for the britches ... well, the controversial "money shot" explains everything. And the cast is one of the great ensembles of the '90s, including Oscar nominees Burt Reynolds and Julianne Moore, Mark Wahlberg (who really can act--from the waist up, too!), Heather Graham (as Rollergirl), William H. Macy, John C. Reilly, and Ricky Jay. --Jim Emerson
I heart Paul Thomas Anderson I have been quite a fan of Paul Thomas Anderson since this film originally came out. That being said, if you did not like his other films, this may not be to your liking either.
Unlike what most people may think about this film, it is not pornography. But it does examine characters in the context of the porn industry of the late 1970s, early 1980s. The characters are interesting and their stories allow you to see them as more than mere stars in Horner's productions.
A great soundtrack and the adorable Polly Anna-esque "Dirk Diggler" played by Mark Wahlberg make this movie entertaining and heart-wrenching.
Special Flim I love this flim its just so different with the soundtrack & camera work, super cast great plot and story. I saw it on the first run at the movies and bought it on DVD.
Looking forward to Watching "There will be Blood" hoping Anderson gets his groove back.
I didn't like this movie!! I found it to be very boring...and didn't feel nothing for none of the characters.
Accept for the Don Cheadle character.
A good introduction to P.T. Anderson This serves as a good introduction to the works of P.T. Anderson. It contains all the elements that make it a true Anderson film without being overly art-house. The acting is all pretty good and it tells a compelling and interesting story. Grade A-
a great ensemble film A fascinating study of the human character, an interplay of a thousand stories, that's really one story, a portrayal of an industry and a parody of the said industry at the same time - this is P>T. Anderson's best movie. Mark Wahlberg is remarkable in it, but so is the rest of the cast. Julianne Moore, Burt Reynolds, John C. Reilly, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Heather Graham all give outstanding performances.
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