Boogie Nights (1997)
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
Summary[]
Set in 1977, back when sex was safe, pleasure was a business and business was booming, idealistic porn producer Jack Horner (Burt Reynolds) aspires to elevate his craft to an art form. Horner discovers Eddie Adams (Mark Wahlberg), 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.
Male Deaths[]
- Jose Chaidez [Puerto Rican Kid]
- Dustin Courtney [Donut Boy]
- Allan Graf [Man with Gun]
- Thomas Jane [Todd Parker]
- B. Philly Johnson [Rahad's Bodyguard]
- Kai Lennox [High School/College Kid]
- William H. Macy [Bill "Little Bill" Thompson]
- Tony Tedeschi [New Year's Eve Young Stud]
Female Deaths[]
- Lil Cinderella [Colonel's Lady Friend]
- Nina Hartley [Little Bill's Wife]
Trivia []
- Robert Ridgely's final film.
- Heather Graham filmed her nude scene on her first day on the set.
- After seeing a rough cut of the film, Burt Reynolds regretted making it, and fired his agent for recommending the role to him. Reynolds ended up winning a Golden Globe, and being nominated for an Academy Award for his performance.
- According to William H. Macy, his agent discouraged him from reading the script. Macy read the script, loved it, and signed on to do the film.
- Paul Thomas Anderson had the role of Scotty with Philip Seymour Hoffman in mind. When Hoffman read the script, he was stunned to learn that the subject matter was porn.
- Leonardo DiCaprio was originally offered the role of Dirk Diggler. He liked the screenplay, but turned it down because he had already signed on to do Titanic (1997). DiCaprio suggested Mark Wahlberg for the role.
- Paul Thomas Anderson simulated the dialogue in the fake porn movies by adapting actual dialogue from real porn movies. He said he did it, so people could not say the porn dialogue "sounded fake."
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