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Actors: Mark Wahlberg, Burt Reynolds, John C. Reilly, Julianne Moore, Heather Graham Director: Paul Thomas Anderson Rating: Features: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC Number of Discs: 2 Running Time: 155 minutes Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1 Release Date: July 3, 2007 Theatrical Release Date: October 10, 1997 Studio: New Line Home Video
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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: 794043109614 Manufacturer No: N10961
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
