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...special thing" might be his mind, his ambition or his artistic ability. Eddie has none of these qualities: his "special thing" is his 18-inch penis. It is on this broomstick that Eddie rides to the top of the pornographic film industry. Along with Eddie, we enter the disco '70s at their quirkiest...
Burt Reynolds plays the patriarch, Jack Horner, an idealist porn director convinced that his films are art. With his wife Amber Waves (Julianne Moore), Jack serves as a surrogate parent to his actors: Eddie, whom he finds working as a runner in a disco; Rollergirl (Heather Graham), named for the rollerskates that never leave her feet, even when the rest of her clothing do; and Reed Rothschild (John C. Reilly), Eddie's boyish sidekick. This family, which includes a few other "stars" and crew members like Little Bill (William H. Macy) and Buck Swope (Don Cheadle), proves surprisingly endearing...
Boogie Nights boasts disco, teased hair, afro picks, porn, Burt Reynolds and Marky Mark. Yet out of all this tackiness, Anderson crafts a fine ensemble film and an unlikely family drama: Eddie finds porn stardom when he joins a strange "extended family" of adult filmmakers. The Cleavers--or the Munsters, for that matter--this family...
...came of age in the 1970s, most notably Robert Altman and Martin Scorcese. The tracking shot, which Scorcese brought to a new level, is used early and often to full effect in Boogie Nights. The opening shot swoops down the street and through the doors of a topless disco, wherein it follows nightclub manager TT Rodriguez (Luis Guzman) as he meets and greets all the major players of this porn film world. A similar tracking shot of Harvey Keitel walking through the nightclub in Scorcese's "Mean Streets" comes to mind, as do the many meandering shots of such Altman...
...characters ultimately get some perspective as well. By the end of the film, in a shot that cleverly mirrors the opening disco scene, Jack surveys his "family" and uses a classic '70s word to describe what his life has become in the '80s: "mel-Photo courtesy of New Line CinemaAN ENSEMBLE CAST: BURT REYNOLDS, MARK WAHLBERG and JULIANNE MOORE invite you to their party and hope that you will stay around to help...