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Boogie Nights Reviews

1997

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While set within the milieu of the Los Angeles adult film industry, Boogie Nights is less a film about pornography than the serio-comic story of a group of misfits, losers, and lost souls who are embraced by Jack Horner (Burt Reynolds), a director who makes adult films, exotic motion pictures. In 1977, while hanging out at a .. Read more

Starring	Mark Wahlberg, Burt Reynolds, Julianne Moore, Heather Graham
Director	Paul Thomas Anderson
Genres	Comedy, Drama

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- An entertaining and sometimes savage account of the last moments of hard-core films, just before the industry switched to video; witty and satiric for much of the time, it is spoilt by its use of gratuitous violence to overcome its narrative flaws.
- 29894
- - Halliwell's Film Guide
  - 02 Mar 2006 at 15:38
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  - 1
  Boogie On!
  
  It must be hard to make a film about the porn industry, without making porn itself... but this film suceeded. Yes, this is a film for adults, and will probably ... read more »
  
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- 315803
- [Highly rated reviewer]
  - AlistairD
  - Lancashire
  - 04 Dec 2004 at 11:21
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- - 0
  - 5
  I thought it was complete pants.
  
  Really poor. The costumes were bad (looked like people trying to do 70's fancy dress. Script was terrible. Acting was wooden.
  
  If they'd done ... read more »
  
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- 1034461
- - danielyuki
  - 3 reviews
  - Hackney, London
  - 28 Aug 2011 at 15:40
- - 0
  - 0
  Boogie Nights - Dy-No-Mite...
  
  Although I wouldnt describe this film as iconic, I can remember it was definitely one of the talking points of the late nineties. Funny, entertaining, but with ... read more »
  
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- 1022886
- - southside
  - 15 reviews
  - 29 Jul 2011 at 00:18
- - 3
  - 0
  Potentially great film in need of an editor
  
  Boogie Nights starts off brilliantly, launching the viewer into the exciting world of ingenue porn star, soon to be know as Dirk Diggler, as he discovers that a... read more »
  
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- 972171
- - cheapthrills
  - 10 reviews
  - UK
  - 11 Mar 2011 at 22:12
- - 1
  - 0
  Boogie Nights
  
  Good film, once you get into it, but then it carries on for a whole 2 1/2 hours. Yes, I enjoyed it but if you're stuck for time, try something else. It is ... read more »
  
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- 962743
- - Emjay69
  - 320 reviews
  - Kidlington, Oxford
  - 10 Feb 2011 at 15:02
- - 3
  - 5
  A serious picture?
  
  OK. I can’t say you’d miss anything by NOT seeming this film. But it’s probably worth taking a look if only for what I guess is a ‘... read more »
  
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- 950634
- - splodge
  - 103 reviews
  - Portsmouth
  - 03 Jan 2011 at 21:29
- - 0
  - 0
  funny and funky
  
  THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS | Show review anywayHide
  
  I wasn't expecting to be so amused by this film but I was, it definatley has a comic element to it. I love how the leading character Eddie is so concerned ... read more »
  
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- 926337
- - a customer
  - London
  - 24 Sep 2010 at 18:56
- - 2
  - 0
  @ "a customer, Bury, England"
  
  You've got the wrong movie, buddy. Neither Christian Bale nor Ewan McGregor are in this. You're thinking of 'Velvet Goldmine', not 'Boogie ... read more »
  
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- - a customer
  - London
  - 06 Sep 2010 at 19:20
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  Before....
  
  Ewan McGregor, Christian Bale and a few other faces in the 'before they became the mega bucks actors they now are' aren't actually too bad before ... read more »
  
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- 920849
- - a customer
  - Bury, England
  - 05 Sep 2010 at 09:35
- - 2
  - 1
  "Jenny was sweet..."
  
  'Jenny was sweet,
  
  She'd always smile for the people she'd meet.
  
  No trouble and strife,
  
  She had a different way of ... read more »
  
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- 899240
- - markashley1961
  - 11 reviews
  - Bristol
  - 16 Jun 2010 at 15:17
- - 2
  - 0
  Boogie Nights
  
  I got this film thinking it was a musical type of film given the title, i was a bit shocked a first but soon began to enjoy the film.
  
  Not really ... read more »
  
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- - a customer
  - Grays
  - 13 Apr 2010 at 15:30
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- - 22
  - 1
  Boogie On!
  
  It must be hard to make a film about the porn industry, without making porn itself... but this film suceeded. Yes, this is a film for adults, and will probably ... read more »
  
  Report this review
- 315803
- [Highly rated reviewer]
  - AlistairD
  - Lancashire
  - 04 Dec 2004 at 11:21
- - 11
  - 4
  avoid
  
  this flim is absolute rubbish boring gives a insight to the porn industry acting is poor better movies out there than this one
  
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- 164478
- - a customer
  - scotland
  - 22 Oct 2005 at 10:28
- - 7
  - 0
  Im a star, Im a star, Im a big bright shining star.
  
  This film is simply brilliant.
  
  The story centers around 17 year old Eddie Adams who is trying to make it as an actor. Whilst working at a club he is... read more »
  
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- 68173
- - MonstroMunch
  - Manchester, England
  - 30 Jan 2005 at 17:45
- - 5
  - 0
  Awful beyond words
  
  With a flimsy storyline the equal of any porn film, and acting to match, this movie redefines the word pointless. Although I enjoyed the music and happily ... read more »
  
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- 161167
- - a customer
  - Lincolnshire
  - 14 Oct 2005 at 18:59
- - 5
  - 1
  Lets groove tonight...
  
  I have seen a review that is very dismissive of this movie, "a man with a big kn@b snorts a lot of coke". Although funny and strictly true it doesnt ... read more »
  
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- 314822
- - liverbar
  - London
  - 23 Nov 2004 at 09:25
- - 4
  - 2
  Rockin days and boogie nights
  
  This is an uncompromising look at the porn industry in the seventies told through the eyes of one Eddie Adams who soon becomes known as Dirk Diggler (Mark ... read more »
  
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- 302275
- - RockBottomWalsh
  - Warwickshire
  - 05 Apr 2004 at 12:34
- - 3
  - 0
  Same sort of plot as ...
  
  Same sort of plot as Blow and Trainspotting. So if you've seen these two you won't get much out of Boogie Nights unless you want to watch a film about ... read more »
  
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- 51772
- - a customer
  - SALE
  - 01 Nov 2004 at 13:48
- - 3
  - 0
  A True
  
  This film has a fundamentaly seedy subject matter, but it has been given care and attention to make this film must-watch drama, not a porno.
  
  This is ... read more »
  
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- 119869
- - a customer
  - Dorset
  - 01 Jul 2005 at 20:41
- - 3
  - 0
  Tentpole!!!!!
  
  Yes, this films about penis, and a big one at that. Wahlberg basically plays John Holmes, bigwig porn star of the 70's, as he bonks and snorts his way into ... read more »
  
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- 269613
- - Gibbo
  - Moreton, Wirral
  - 31 Jul 2006 at 02:26
- - 3
  - 0
  Potentially great film in need of an editor
  
  Boogie Nights starts off brilliantly, launching the viewer into the exciting world of ingenue porn star, soon to be know as Dirk Diggler, as he discovers that a... read more »
  
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- 972171
- - cheapthrills
  - 10 reviews
  - UK
  - 11 Mar 2011 at 22:12

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Critics' reviews
- An entertaining and sometimes savage account of the last moments of hard-core films, just before the industry switched to video; witty and satiric for much of the time, it is spoilt by its use of gratuitous violence to overcome its narrative flaws.
- 29894
- - Halliwell's Film Guide
  - 02 Mar 2006 at 15:38
- "...With its ceaseless music, large canvas, shrewd casting, flawless ensemble acting and the dexterity of its whiplashing mood switches, the movie recalls Robert Altman's NASHVILLE..." -- 4 out of 4 stars
- 7119
- - USA Today
  - 11 Mar 2005 at 12:58
- Anderson's second feature - a dazzling, highly confident, atmospherically original and refreshingly non-prurient take... read more on Time Out
- 42990
- - Time Out
  - 04 Nov 2008 at 00:13
- Ranked #2 in Entertainment Weekly's "10 Favorite Films of the '90s" - "...Bravura....An ecstatic act of filmmaking..."
- 7117
- - Entertainment Weekly
  - 11 Mar 2005 at 12:58
- "...A hilariously engaging and at times bleakly disturbing chronicle..."
- 7118
- - Sight and Sound
  - 11 Mar 2005 at 12:58

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  It's Los Angeles, 1977, and adult film director Jack Horner (Burt Reynolds) meets Eddie Adams (Mark Wahlberg), a well-endowed dishwasher in a nightclub. Jack recruits Eddie to be his newest star and Eddie, hungry for fame, quickly agrees, changing his name to Dirk Diggler. Soon Dirk is the hottest ...

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  While set within the milieu of the Los Angeles adult film industry, Boogie Nights is less a film about pornography than the serio-comic story of a group of misfits, losers, and lost souls who are embraced by Jack Horner (Burt Reynolds), a director who makes adult films, exotic motion pictures. In ...