Boogie Nights is a American period comedy-drama film written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. It is set in Los Angeles 's San Fernando Valley and focuses on a young nightclub dishwasher who becomes a popular star of pornographic films , chronicling his rise in the Golden Age of Porn of the s through to his fall during the excesses of the s. Reilly , William H. The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 11, and was theatrically released on October 10, , garnering critical praise. The film's soundtrack has also received acclaim. In , high-school dropout Eddie Adams is living with his father and emotionally abusive mother in Torrance, California. He works at a Reseda nightclub owned by Maurice Rodriguez, where he meets porn filmmaker Jack Horner. Interested in bringing Eddie into porn, Jack auditions him by watching him have sex with Rollergirl, a porn starlet who always wears skates. After arguing with his mother about his girlfriend and sex life, Adams moves in with Horner at his San Fernando Valley home.


We'll probably never see Wahlberg take on a character like Dirk Diggler ever again.


1. Leonardo DiCaprio almost played Dirk Diggler.
Female nudity in films is quite common, however full-frontal male nudity is much more rare. Unless you count that sextape that got out of Colin Farrell, this is the only time we're aware of that Castleknock's own showed everyone what his length looks like. As Farrell himself said, it's nobody's business.
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Home » Entertainment. This stone cold-classic turns 20 years old this week. The year was Why, you ask? While it is considered one of the best movies of the s , Boogie Nights was set in the heady days of the s porn boom in the San Fernando Valley. Mark Wahlberg played a down-and-out nobody reborn as adult industry legend named Dirk Diggler, his nom de porn a reference to his freakishly large dong. Leonardo DiCaprio told an Australian radio show that Dirk Diggler was the one role he really regretted turning down, and we can hardly blame him. That movie was a disaster. As it turns out, he wanted a bit of both.
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