Boogie Nights
Eddie is a young ambitious actor discovered by Jack Horner, an adult film director, who always considered his work as an artistic creation. Eddie renames as Dirk Diggler, and she quickly catches up with the lifestyle and complex relationships in the industry of the late '70s movie.
17 March 1977, Los Angeles, California, USA
16 December 1949, USA
11 March 1959, Berkeley, California, USA
24 December 1931, Teaneck, New Jersey, USA
18 May 1976, Fort Worth, Texas, USA
12 December 1971, Akron, Ohio, USA
22 March 1967, Medford, Massachusetts, USA
17 December 1948, Upland, California, USA
August 20, 2009
Call it the consummate example of director-as-DJ, at least for now.
June 18, 2002
With Boogie Nights we know we're not just watching episodes from disparate lives but a panorama of recent social history, rendered in bold, exuberant colors.
February 04, 2010
Boogie Nights, an epic tale of porn, pleasure, and excess, offers a purer hit of exhilaration than any movie this year.
July 25, 2012
Unflinching look at porn industry; lots of sex, drugs.
May 01, 2006
Considering the potentially explosive nature of the yarn, set in the porn world, Anderson's strategy is remarkably nonjudgmental and nonsensationalistic, largely due to his love and respect for all the characters and his impressive storytelling skills.
July 07, 2010
An epic story of self-delusion with a skill and grace that many more experienced filmmakers would be hard put to match.
February 14, 2001
The film is bemused and entertained, as we are, by this pack of sexual extremists, and the eye it casts on them is both benevolent and wry.
July 06, 2010
Comparisons are invidious, but inescapable: Boogie Nights is the most stunningly accomplished, attention-grabbing movie by a sophomore director since Pulp Fiction.
February 09, 2006
In terms of sweep, ambition and precocious cinematic competence, it heralds the arrival of a new talent.
January 18, 2010
...loud, gaudy, profane, thoughtful, and risqué; you can't say it isn't fun in its own exuberant way.
January 13, 2017
Boogie Nights is an impassioned and creative portrait of American souls in distress from a young, passionate filmmaker who threw himself headlong into his movies (his follow-up, Magnolia, pushes even further).
April 27, 2007
Not since the mysteriously reclusive Terrence Malick has there been such an explosion of sheer talent on the American movie scene.
