Boogie Nights
Boogie Nights
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Boogie Nights

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

7.6 / 10
1997
156 min
Drama

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.

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Cast

Mark Wahlberg

Mark Wahlberg

Eddie Adams / Dirk Diggler

Burt Reynolds

Burt Reynolds

Jack Horner

Julianne Moore

Julianne Moore

Amber Waves

John C. Reilly

John C. Reilly

Reed Rothchild

Heather Graham

Heather Graham

Rollergirl

Don Cheadle

Don Cheadle

Buck Swope

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Scotty J.

William H. Macy

William H. Macy

Little Bill

Thomas Jane

Thomas Jane

Todd Parker

Luis Guzmán

Luis Guzmán

Maurice t.t. Rodriguez

Melora Walters

Melora Walters

Jessie St. Vincent

Robert Ridgely

Robert Ridgely

The Colonel James

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