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Eddie Adams, a high school dropout, begins working as a porn star and achieves huge success. His life and career, however, hit a roadblock after he gets addicted to drugs. Boogie Nights endures. For its beautiful portrait of nontraditional families; for Reynolds and Wahlberg, the surrogate father and son, who were never better; for Philip Seymour Hoffman, squeezing into character and breaking hearts; for its prodigy director sticking to his guns and nailing it; for John C. Reilly’s hot-tub poetry; for Rollergirl. Is everybody ready? – Alex French and Howie Kahn, Grantland SPECIAL FEATURES AMERICAN CINEMATHEQUE Q&A (PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON AND JOHN C. REILLY) DIRECTOR COMMENTARY CAST COMMENTARY ADDITIONAL SCENES AND MORE
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Boogie Nights (1997)
156 min
In 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.