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Boogie Nights
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Boogie Nights is a 1997 American drama and buddy film written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. The English-language production stars Mark Wahlberg, Burt Reynolds, Julianne Moore, and John C. Reilly. Michael Penn composed the score, while Dylan Tichenor served as film editor. The movie was produced by Paul Thomas Anderson, Lawrence Gordon, Lloyd Levin, and JoAnne Sellar, with Gordon also listed as an executive producer. New Line Cinema handled distribution, and the film was shot in California and Los Angeles.
The narrative is set in Los Angeles and deals with the subject of pornography. The film has a runtime of 149 minutes according to one source, 155 minutes according to another, and 156 minutes according to a third. It received an R rating. The work was nominated for three Academy Awards, including Best Supporting Actress, Best Supporting Actor, and Best Writing, Original Screenplay, as well as the European Film Award for Best Non-European Film. It is part of the Museum of Modern Art collection.
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Film · TMDB
7.6In 1977, an idealistic porn producer and his promising protege try to catch up with the end of an era before their never-ending party collides with cold, hard reality.
Cast
- Mark Wahlberg as Eddie Adams / Dirk Diggler
- Burt Reynolds as Jack Horner
- Julianne Moore as Amber Waves
- John C. Reilly as Reed Rothchild
- Heather Graham as Rollergirl
- Don Cheadle as Buck Swope
Themes
- new year's eve
- adultery
- pornography
- robbery
- husband wife relationship
- drug abuse
- 1970s
- cocaine
- porn actor
- custody battle
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Ratings
IMDb
7.9/10
294,236 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
91%
Metacritic
86/100
- Year
- 1997
- Runtime
- 155 min
- Genres
- Drama
- Rated
- R
- Awards
- Nominated for 3 Oscars. 36 wins & 64 nominations total
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Paul Thomas Anderson
- Written by
- Paul Thomas Anderson
- Produced by
- Lloyd Levin John Lyons Paul Thomas Anderson JoAnne Sellar
- Starring
- Mark Wahlberg Julianne Moore Burt Reynolds Don Cheadle John C. Reilly William H. Macy Heather Graham Nicole Ari Parker Philip Seymour Hoffman
- Cinematography
- Robert Elswit
- Edited by
- Dylan Tichenor
- Music by
- Michael Penn
- Production companies
- Lawrence Gordon Productions Ghoulardi Film Company
- Distributed by
- New Line Cinema
- Release dates
- September 11, 1997 ( 1997-09-11 ) ( TIFF ) October 10, 1997 ( 1997-10-10 ) (United States)
- Running time
- 155 minutes
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Budget
- $15 million
- Box office
- $43.1 million
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- buddy film
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- English language
- Based on
- The Dirk Diggler Story
- Creator
- Paul Thomas Anderson
- Collection
- Museum of Modern Art
- Director
- Paul Thomas Anderson
- Screenwriter
- Paul Thomas Anderson
- Cast member
- Michael Penn
- Composer
- Michael Penn
- Production company
- New Line Cinema
- Cinematographer
- Robert Elswit
- Narrative location
- Los Angeles
- Duration
- 149
- FilmAffinity ID
- 568295
- Distribution format
- video on demand
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- publication date
- 1998-06-04
- film editor
- Dylan Tichenor
- title
- Boogie Nights
- nominated for
- European Film Award for Best Non-European Film
- distributed by
- New Line Cinema
- executive producer
- Lawrence Gordon
- costume designer
- Mark Bridges
- set in period
- 1980s
- review score
- 86/100
- Commons category
- Boogie Nights
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Encyclopedic overview
Boogie Nights is a 1997 American comedy-drama film written, directed, and co-produced by Paul Thomas Anderson. It is set in Los Angeles' San Fernando Valley and focuses on a young nightclub dishwasher who becomes a popular star of pornographic films, chronicling his rise in the Golden Age of Porn of the 1970s through his fall during the excesses of the 1980s. The film is an expansion of Anderson's mockumentary short film The Dirk Diggler Story (1988), and stars Mark Wahlberg, Julianne Moore, Burt Reynolds, Don Cheadle, John C. Reilly, William H. Macy, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Nicole Ari Parker, and Heather Graham.
Boogie Nights premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 11, 1997, and was theatrically released by New Line Cinema on October 10, 1997, garnering critical acclaim and grossing $43.1 million against a $15 million budget. It was nominated for three Academy Awards, including Best Original Screenplay for Anderson, Best Supporting Actress for Moore, and Best Supporting Actor for Reynolds. The film's soundtrack also received acclaim. It has since been considered one of Anderson's best works, and one of the best films of all time by Variety.
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