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Boogie Nights

Boogie Nights

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Status

Released

Release Date

Oct 10, 1997

Runtime

2h 36m

Genres

Drama

User Score

76%

Original Title

Boogie Nights

Production Companies

New Line Cinema, Lawrence Gordon Productions, Ghoulardi Film Company

Director

Paul Thomas Anderson

Budget

$15,000,000

Revenue

$43,101,594

Description

Set in 1977, back when sex was safe, pleasure was a business and business was booming, idealistic porn producer Jack Horner aspires to elevate his craft to an art form. Horner discovers Eddie Adams, 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.