Boogie Nights
by Paul Thomas Anderson
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Actor: Burt Reynolds, Don Cheadle, Heather Graham, Julianne Moore, Mark WahlbergDirector: Paul Thomas Anderson
Brand: NEW Line Home Video
Producer: Paul Thomas Anderson
Writer: Paul Thomas Anderson
Producer: Lawrence Gordon
Producer: Lloyd Levin
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); French (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.40:1
Running Time: 155 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-07-03
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Model: N10961
Studio: New Line Home Video
Product features:
- 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 Rating: R Age: 794043109614 UPC: 794043109614 Manufacturer
Movie Reviews of Boogie Nights
Movie Review: Boogie Nights
Summary: 5 Stars
In the 70's, Eddie Adams (Mark Wahlberg) started out as a barboy at a night club. Cleaning up at the club, and performing sexual acts for money, one day he comes across Jack Horner (Burt Reynolds) who realizes his "talent" and asks him if he wants to be an actor. Appearing under the stage name Dirk Diggler, Eddie becomes a big time porn star in the 70's. Everything seems great as the booze, drugs, and sex flow at first, but when as they move into the 80's their good times start to unravel.
It's hard to remember a time when Paul Thomas Anderson wasn't a world class director, especially when you look at the fact that There Will Be Blood came out in 2007 to great critical acclaim and gave PTA a Best Director nomination and a nom for best picture. It's just as hard to remember a time when Mark Wahlberg wasn't an A-list celebrity known more for his movies than for being Marky Mark from Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch, or the little brother of Donnie Wahlberg from New Kids on the Block. Although they both had made movies prior to Boogie Nights, Boogie Nights is the movie that launched both director and actor into the stratosphere.
Boogie Nights is a movie that shows Anderson as an excellent writer and as a director with his own vision. A self-described fan of John Holmes work, Anderson crafted a movie that excellently shows the rise and fall of the booming pornography business of the late 70's and early 80's through his main character the "Wad-esque" Eddie Adams. With his script, Anderson creates real characters, not just charicatures of the actors he idolized as a teen. Each of his characters has highs and lows, quirks, beliefs, and feel truly lived in and real. When they hurt, we hurt. When they do something wrong we scream at them, but they never feel unnatural. With his directing he effortlessly recreates the world of the late 70's and 80's paying homage to his filmmaking idols like Martin Scorsese (the long one take shots roaming through parties and following characters reminiscent of Goodfellas, as well as Eddie talking to himself in a mirror a la Raging Bull) while never feeling like he's outright copying them. In essence, while using the porn business to craft his film, he's really paying homage to film in general, not just the porn industry at it's peak.
The acting in this movie, ironically for a movie that deals with the porn industry, finds the actors working at peak form. And when you have talent like the talent in this film you can't go wrong. With Julianne Moore, John C. Reilly, Luis Guzman, Don Cheadle, William H. Macy, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Philip Baker Hall, and Alfred Molina you can't go wrong. The real standouts in this film though are Burt Reynolds (who earned an Oscar nod for his performance) and Mark Wahlberg. Burt Reynolds plays Jack Horner as something of a fatherly figure to his actors. An expert business man who is always calm cool and collected, but has a fire bubbling underneath. On the opposite end you have Wahlberg who plays Eddie. Expertly, he portrays Eddie with the innocence of a boy who is wide eyed at the life he gets, but once he gets it that innocence makes him full of himself. Wahlberg expertly follows every necessary tick to truly bring this character to life. I would also like to throw out an honorable mention to Heather Graham who gives one of her best performances in this movie as well.
I highly recommend this movie. Naturally, it's hard for us Americans to get over our hangups about sex, and make no mistake there is a lot of it in this film. But if I may be allowed to make a comparison, this movie is almost like Goodfellas, only with the porn industry instead of the mob. If you like Scorsese films, good acting, dramas, and fun movies I highly recommend this movie. Naturally, be sure to keep the kids away from this movie unless you've had the bird and the bees talk and want them to learn more about it visually. Go for the story, stay for the acting, and wait for the big reveal at the end, it's totally worth it!
5/5
Summary of Boogie Nights
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