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Boogie Nights (New Line Platinum Series)
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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
DVD Layers: 1
DVD Sides: 1
EAN: 9780780631205
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Special Edition, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 078063120X
Item Dimensions: 45
Label: New Line Home Video
Languages: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled),
Manufacturer: New Line Home Video
MPN: DN5033D
Number Of Items: 2
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen
Publisher: New Line Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: August 29, 2000
Running Time: 155 minutes
Studio: New Line Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: October 10, 1997
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Editorial Review:
From Hollywood's hottest new director comes the outrageous epic that throws the covers back on California's adult entertainment industry in the swinging seventies. It's a touching and often humorous portrait of a most unusual family of filmakers broughtRunning Time: 155 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY UPC: 794043503320
Even if the notorious 1970s porn-filmmaking milieu doesn't exactly turn you on, don't let it turn you off to this movie's extraordinary virtues, either. Boogie Nights is one of the key movies of the 1990s, and among the most ambitious and exuberantly alive American movies in years. It's also the breakthrough for an amazing new director, whose dazzling kaleidoscopic style here recalls the Robert Altman of Nashville and the Martin Scorsese of GoodFellas. Although loosely based on the sleazy life and times of real-life porn legend John Holmes, at heart it's a classic Hollywood rise-and-fall fable: a naive, good-looking young busboy is discovered in a San Fernando Valley disco by a famous motion picture producer, becomes a hotshot movie star, lives the high life, and then loses everything when he gets too big for his britches, succumbs to insobriety, and is left behind by new times and new technology. Of course, it ain't exactly A Star Is Born or Singin' in the Rain. Writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson (in only his second feature!) puts his own affectionately sardonic twist on the old showbiz biopic formula: the ambitious upstart changes his name and achieves stardom in porno films as "Dirk Diggler." Instead of drinking to excess, he snorts cocaine (the classic drug of '70s hedonism); and it's the coming of home video (rather than talkies) that helps to dash his big-screen dreams. As for the britches ... well, the controversial "money shot" explains everything. And the cast is one of the great ensembles of the '90s, including Oscar nominees Burt Reynolds and Julianne Moore, Mark Wahlberg (who really can act--from the waist up, too!), Heather Graham (as Rollergirl), William H. Macy, John C. Reilly, and Ricky Jay. --Jim Emerson
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - I heart Paul Thomas Anderson
I have been quite a fan of Paul Thomas Anderson since this film originally came out. That being said, if you did not like his other films, this may not be to your liking either.
Unlike what most people may think about this film, it is not pornography. But it does examine characters in the context of the porn industry of the late 1970s, early 1980s. The characters are interesting and their stories allow you to see them as more than mere stars in Horner's productions.
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Rating:  - Special Flim
I love this flim its just so different with the soundtrack & camera work, super cast great plot and story. I saw it on the first run at the movies and bought it on DVD.
Looking forward to Watching "There will be Blood" hoping Anderson gets his groove back.
Rating: - A good introduction to P.T. Anderson
This serves as a good introduction to the works of P.T. Anderson. It contains all the elements that make it a true Anderson film without being overly art-house. The acting is all pretty good and it tells a compelling and interesting story. Grade A-
Rating: - a great ensemble film
A fascinating study of the human character, an interplay of a thousand stories, that's really one story, a portrayal of an industry and a parody of the said industry at the same time - this is P>T. Anderson's best movie. Mark Wahlberg is remarkable in it, but so is the rest of the cast. Julianne Moore, Burt Reynolds, John C. Reilly, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Heather Graham all give outstanding performances.
Rating: - What was the name of that Fenix Tx song again?
I think men and women alike love pornography, at least for the most part, and those of you who don't particularly like it, I am sure have indulged themselves in it at one time or another whether it be due to curiosity, or the inability to get a partner. Anyways, it's a controversial industry, and this movie proves to be pretty much no less controversial. And I like controversial films, those that push boundaries and ideals, and even morality as a whole.
But, ok, Eddie Adams is a busboy ... Read More
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