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avg. user rating (1-10): 10
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155 minutes
USA (1997)
18
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BOOGIE NIGHTS FILM REVIEW |
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The breakthrough movie of filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson. A study of the 70s and 80s porn industry starring Mark Wahlberg
If his debut feature, Hard Eight, suggested that writer-director Anderson was just another Tarantino wannabe hustling his way through the Hollywood jungle, that impression was completely dispelled by this ambitious ensemble piece set in the world of hardcore pornography.
With acute sensitivity and perception, Anderson charts the interweaving lives of a group of porn pioneers through the heady 70s and into the hard-nosed 80s, when drugs, money and the characters' ingrained insecurities begin to take their toll.
Yet the film also operates as a curiously touching portrait of the nuclear family, headed by the fiercely protective, but tragically deluded, filmmaker Jack Horner (Reynolds) and the vulnerable veteran actress Amber Waves (Moore), with the prodigiously endowed Eddie Adams aka Dirk Diggler (Wahlberg) and the spaced-out Rollergirl (Graham) their adoptive offspring.
A hugely moral work that is never even remotely moralistic.
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