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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...
...dinner with the actual Robert De Niro to talk about a boxing film the two plan to star in called Out on My Feet. And Wahlberg is already drawing serious critical attention for his unexpectedly impressive work in Boogie Nights as Dirk Diggler, a softheaded hard-core porn actor. "This new movie of his is going to make him a star," predicts DreamWorks mogul David Geffen, an early Wahlberg mentor. "He's built a legitimate career for himself, which he did not have as a recording artist. There's something about Mark, a sexy bad-boy vibe, that's very...
Boogie Nights, written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, is itself a size freak; the movie is in love with bigness. It spends 2 hrs. and 32 min. spanning eight years in the lives of a dozen or so denizens of the porn biz. Loosely based on the life of John C. Holmes, porn's biggest male star, Boogie Nights has panoramic ambitions: a tapestry-style narrative, labyrinthine tracking shots, explosions of random, firecracker violence. Nashville meets GoodFellas meets Pulp Friction. The film doesn't quite get there, but it packs a wad of compelling entertainment on its road...
This is no porn-biz expose. It shows no women lured into fornicating on film; it doesn't finger the Mafia as a crucial investor. When Eddie inevitably splits with Jack, he has nowhere to go; Jack is apparently the only director in pornland. Nor is there much eroticism; indeed, except for the film's final shot, where we get to see Eddie's penis (granted, a nifty prosthetic effect), Boogie Nights has little nudity--it's a sex film that stints on the sex. And Holmes, who died of AIDS in 1988, had a life far more bizarre...