Boogie Nights

Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
Release Date: 10 October 1997
Rated R

 

Cast:

Luis Guzmán as Maurice TT Rodriguez (as Luis Guzman)
Burt Reynolds as Jack Horner
Julianne Moore as Amber Waves
Rico Bueno as Hot Traxx Waiter
John C. Reilly as Reed Rothchild
Nicole Ari Parker as Becky Barnett
Don Cheadle as Buck Swope
Heather Graham as Rollergirl
Mark Wahlberg as Eddie Adams – Dirk Diggler
William H. Macy as Little Bill

 

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 filmmakers.

Trivia:

The opening scene is three minutes long, taken in a single camera shot, beginning in the street where Jack Horner and Amber Waves drive up and follow them as they get out of the car and walk into a night club. Most of the characters in the movie are introduced in this shot.

Before the film was finished, Director Paul Thomas Anderson sent a rough copy to New Line Cinema for them to do the trailer for the film. The movie was pirated and distributed before it was released. The pirated work print includes many scenes not in the movie or DVD deleted scenes and were possibly deleted to avoid the NC-17 rating- as some are very explicit.

The entire film is based on the short film The Dirk Diggler Story (1988), also by Paul Thomas Anderson. It was a This Is Spinal Tap (1984)-like mockumentary, which would go on to be redone for the short “Dirk Diggler Story” in this film. In the original short film, Robert Ridgely, who plays The Colonel here, played Jack Horner. The man with whom Don Cheadle is talking in the stereo store is Michael Stein, who played Dirk Diggler. The original script was 300 pages, cut down to 180 pages.

Leonardo DiCaprio was originally offered the role of Dirk Diggler. He liked the screenplay but turned it down because he had already signed on to do Titanic (1997). However, it was DiCaprio who suggested Mark Wahlberg for the role.

 

 

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