Boogie Nights

UPC: 794043465024

Studio: New Line Home Video

MPAA Rating: R   Contains:[Violence, Nudity, Adult Situations, Strong Sexual Content, Not For Children, Profanity, Substance Abuse]

Summary: While set within the milieu of the Los Angeles adult film industry, Boogie Nights is less a film about pornography than the serio-comic story of a group of misfits, losers, and lost souls who are embraced by Jack Horner (Burt Reynolds), a director who makes "adult films, exotic motion pictures." In 1977, while hanging out at a disco, Jack spots Eddie (Mark Wahlberg), the new busboy at the club, and tells him he's convinced "there's something wonderful inside those jeans waiting to get out." Jack knows his business well and his expert eye has not betrayed him; Eddie is a pornographer's dream -- good looking, remarkably endowed, and willing and able to do as many takes as might be needed. The product of a woefully dysfunctional upbringing, Eddie is not terribly bright but is very ambitious and eager to prove he has a "special something" to share with the world. Eddie changes his name to Dirk Diggler and quickly becomes the biggest star in hardcore. Working alongside "Dirk" in Jack's films are Amber Waves (Julianne Moore), a porn actress who applies her misplaced maternal instincts to anyone who needs nurturing; Rollergirl (Heather Graham), a cheerful but blank-faced high school drop-out who never removes her roller skates; Reed Rothchild (John C. Reilly), a none-too-bright actor, aspiring magician, and failing songwriter; Buck (Don Cheadle), a black actor fascinated with cowboy iconography who wants to open a stereo shop; Scotty J (Philip Seymour Hoffman), a stocky and awkward soundman infatuated with Dirk; Little Bill (William H. Macy), Jack's assistant director, who has trouble dealing with his wife's brazen infidelity; and Colonel James (Robert Ridgely), Jack's backer, who has a weakness for young girls. In the brief, late-'70s moment when porn was chic and sex films seemed poised to break into the mainstream, Dirk becomes a star and Jack a respected name. But a few years later, drugs and pride have taken their toll on Dirk and many of his friends, while the advent of the VCR radically changes the adult movie business; Jack goes from being a "filmmaker" to manufacturing and wholesaling videocassettes, a wealthy but emotionally broken man. In his second film, wunderkind director Paul Thomas Anderson juggled a broad range of characters in a manner reminiscent of Robert Altman's ensemble films, making Boogie Nights a sad but funny story of a makeshift family of damaged people and what happens before and after their brief moment in the sun. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

Category: Comedy Drama

Awards: Best Supporting Actress – null Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion – null Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion – Los Angeles Film Critics Association Best Supporting Actress – Los Angeles Film Critics Association New Generation Award – Los Angeles Film Critics Association Best Original Screenplay – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Supporting Actress – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Picture – National Board of Review Best Director [Runner-up] – Toronto Film Critics Association Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion – Chicago Film Critics Association Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion – National Society of Film Critics Best Supporting Actress – National Society of Film Critics Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion – Screen Actors Guild Best Supporting Actress – Screen Actors Guild Best Ensemble Acting – Screen Actors Guild Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion – New York Film Critics Circle Best Supporting Actor – New York Film Critics Circle Best Supporting Actor – Screen Actors Guild Best Supporting Actor – National Society of Film Critics Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion – Hollywood Foreign Press Association Best Supporting Actor – Chicago Film Critics Association Best Supporting Actor – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Supporting Actor – Los Angeles Film Critics Association Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Moti – Hollywood Foreign Press Association

Features: Widescreen version
Audio commentary by writer/director P.T. Anderson
Nine deleted scenes
Music video from Michael Penn ("Try"), directed by P.T. Anderson
Direct access to songs
Character biographies
Cast and crew biographies, filmographies, and fully animated menus

Boogie Nights

Format: DVD

Release Date: 04/07/1998

Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1 Cinemascope

Audio: 5.1 Dolby Digital 5.1

Runtime: 155 Minutes

Sides: 1

Number of Discs: 1

Language(s) English,French

Subtitles: English,French,Spanish

Region: USA & territories, Canada

Chapters: Scene Selections
0. Scene Selections
1. Opening Logo/Boogie Nights [:54]
2. "The Sage"/Introductions [3:18]
3. Breakfast at the Roams' [3:57]
4. Buck's TK421 [3:36]
5. Coffee Shop [:54]
6. "Brand New Key." [1:24]
7. "Mama Told Me..."/Jack's Party [4:48]
8. The Colonel/"Spill The Wine." [2:08]
9. "Lonely Boy"/Maggie [2:24]
10. Little Bill/"Fooled Around..." [1:34]
11. "I Think She's Sick." [:47]
12. Scotty/"You Sexy Thing." [2:20]
13. First Sex Scene [2:49]
14. "If You Need A Close Up."/"Boogie Shoes." [:03]
15. "Machine Gun"/Split Screen [3:41]
16. Award Ceremony [:01]
17. 1978/Brock and Chest [1:26]
18. Dirk's New House/"Gotta Give It Up." [2:21]
19. Floyd Gondolli/"Driver's Seat." [:01]
20. Todd Parker [1:08]
21. Godzilla vs. Mothra [2:13]
22. Scotty and Dirk [2:24]
23. Little Bill's New Year [10:50]
24. Amber's Documentary [:07]
25. Jack and the Colonel [2:09]
26. Johnny Doe [:01]
27. "The Touch." [2:29]
28. Sequence D/"Compared To What." [1:26]
29. Buck's Loan [1:48]
30. Amber's Hearing [2:33]
31. On The Lookout [4:31]
32. The Donut Shop [1:33]
33. Rahad Jackson/"Sister Christian." [3:34]
34. Cosmo and "Jessie's Girl." [:04]
35. "God Only Knows." [3:17]
36. "The Big Top." [2:32]
37. The Last Shot [3:03]

Lucia Bozzola

Following his low-key debut Hard Eight (1996), Paul Thomas Anderson staked his claim to auteur status with his ambitious pornography and family epic Boogie Nights. Set in the late 1970s and early 1980s, the story of young porn star Dirk Diggler and his adult movie "family" upends convention, as Anderson non-judgmentally captures the spirited possibilities of '70s hedonism before it passed into a nakedly acquisitive, coke-fueled Reagan-era hell. Along with the period music, costumes, and d?cor, Anderson's bravura technique harks back to 1970s Hollywood, itself: there's a widescreen, Robert Altman-esque tapestry of characters; split-screen montage in the vein of Brian De Palma; audaciously assured Martin Scorsese-style long takes; and a final shot that pays homage to Raging Bull (1980). The sterling ensemble cast further brings Anderson's collection of dreamers to complex life, lending humane substance to the dazzling surface. In his best role in years, Burt Reynolds's nuanced turn as director Jack Horner earned him numerous critics' prizes and a long-desired Oscar nomination. Julianne Moore received equal approbation as maternal porn queen Amber Waves, while Mark Wahlberg's head-turning performance as Dirk proved that he was more than the sum of his body parts. Despite doubts over the film's latter half, Boogie Nights' accolades and prizes -- coupled with its decent box office returns and considerable longevity on video -- burnished Anderson's reputation as a new directorial star. ~ Lucia Bozzola, Rovi

Cast and Crew: Lawrence Gordon  Executive Producer 
Lloyd Levin  Producer 
Joanne Sellar  Producer 
Joanne Sellar  Screenwriter 
John Lyons  Producer 
Michael Penn  Composer (Music Score) 
Paul Thomas Anderson  Director 
Paul Thomas Anderson  Producer 
Paul Thomas Anderson  Screenwriter 
Mark Wahlberg  Actor 
Burt Reynolds  Actor 
Julianne Moore  Actor 
John C. Reilly  Actor 
Don Cheadle  Actor 
Heather Graham  Actor 
Philip Seymour Hoffman  Actor 
William H. Macy  Actor 
Luis Guzman  Actor 
Alfred Molina  Actor 
Robert Ridgely  Actor 
Ricky Jay  Actor 
Philip Baker Hall  Actor 
Nina Hartley  Actor 
Melora Walters  Actor 
Nicole Ari Parker  Actor 
Thomas Jane  Actor 
Laurel Holloman  Actor 

Country: USA