Paul Thomas Anderson’s masterful look at the adult film scene in the San Fernando Valley is a meticulously made look at ’70s culture, decadence and the entertainment industry, as a career-best Mark Wahlberg takes the city by storm as the massively endowed porn star Dirk Diggler. Wahlberg is surrounded by a stable of brilliant actors, able to find the humanity within the larger-than-life personalities and hangers-on swirling around Dirk, from a splashy late career performance by Burt Reynolds to a heartbreaking turn from Julianne Moore. Add a perfect soundtrack, beautiful camerawork from frequent PTA collaborator Robert Elswit and a late ’90s audience that was game to embrace a sprawling porn epic, and a big, bright, shining star of a movie was born.
Movie about Porn Stars: Boogie Nights (1997)
Movie about Porn Stars:
Boogie Nights (1997)
Paul Thomas Anderson’s masterful look at the adult film scene in the San Fernando Valley is a meticulously made look at ’70s culture, decadence and the entertainment industry, as a career-best Mark Wahlberg takes the city by storm as the massively endowed porn star Dirk Diggler. Wahlberg is surrounded by a stable of brilliant actors, able to find the humanity within the larger-than-life personalities and hangers-on swirling around Dirk, from a splashy late career performance by Burt Reynolds to a heartbreaking turn from Julianne Moore. Add a perfect soundtrack, beautiful camerawork from frequent PTA collaborator Robert Elswit and a late ’90s audience that was game to embrace a sprawling porn epic, and a big, bright, shining star of a movie was born.