Boogie Nights

The life of a dreamer, the days of a business, and the nights in between.

Runtime : 156 mins

Genre : Drama

Vote Rating : 7.6

Release Date 07-October-1997

Set in 1977, back when sex was safe, pleasure was a business and business was booming, idealistic porn producer Jack Horner aspires to elevate his craft to an art form. Horner discovers Eddie Adams, a hot young talent working as a busboy in a nightclub, and welcomes him into the extended family of movie-makers, misfits and hangers-on that are always around. Adams rise from nobody to a celebrity adult entertainer is meteoric, and soon the whole world seems to know his porn alter ego, "Dirk Diggler". Now, when disco and drugs are in vogue, fashion is in flux and the party never seems to stop, Adams dreams of turning sex into stardom are about to collide with cold, hard reality.

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Cast Members

Eddie Adams alias Dirk Diggler
played by
Mark Wahlberg

Maggie alias Amber Waves
played by
Julianne Moore

Jack Horner
played by
Burt Reynolds

Buck Swope
played by
Don Cheadle

Reed Rothchild
played by
John C. Reilly

"Little" Bill Thompson
played by
William H. Macy

Brandy alias Rollergirl
played by
Heather Graham

Todd Parker
played by
Thomas Jane

Scotty J.
played by
Philip Seymour Hoffman

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