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Features: DVD, Platinum Series
From writer/director P.T. Anderson comes the turbulent behind the scenes story of an extended family of filmmakers who set out to revolutionize the adult entertainment industry in the seventies. Idealistic producer Jack Horner (Burt Reynolds) has always dreamed of elevating his films into an art form. When he discovers young actor Eddie Adams (Mark Wahlberg). Jack begins to turn his dreams into reality. Under the stage name of Dirk Diggler, Eddie soon gives the adult entertainment world a star the likes of which it has never seen. But the rise to fame has its costs and soon Dirk finds himself sliding down the slippery slope of sex, drugs and violence. The only question can he get himself back together before its too late?A Note to The Viewer:
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Editor's Note
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 star in the porn industry, alongside Rollergirl (Heather Graham), a high school dropout who never removes her roller skates, and Amber Waves (Julianne Moore), the veteran star who pines for the son she's not allowed to visit. On the fringes, Little Bill (William H. Macy) fumes while his wife cheats on him in public, and Buck Swope (Don Cheadle) tries to escape the stigma of being a porn actor. The good times roll, but before long Dirk falls victim to the pressures of stardom and a drug habit that ruins his career while Jack struggles with porn's conversion from film to cheaper videotapes. Director Paul Thomas Anderson's breakthrough film is an exhilarating ride along the underbelly of the 1970s inspired by the films of Altman and Scorsese, featuring colorful camera work, a dynamic soundtrack, and excellent performances from the entire cast, most notably Reynolds in an Oscar-nominated comeback role.
Plot Summary
Director Paul Thomas Anderson's second film is a sprawling, polyphonous drama set in the seedy greater L.A. porn scene during the late 1970s and early 1980s.
| Features | Region 1 | | Snap Case | | 2-Disc Set | | Widescreen - 2.35 | | Audio:
| Dolby Digital 5.1 - English | | Dolby Digital 5.1 - French | | Dolby Surround - English |
| | Disc One: | | Additional Release Material:
| Audio Commentary - 1. Paul Thomas Anderson - Director | | 2. Cast & Crew, Paul Thomas Anderson - Director |
| | Interactive Features:
| Song Access |
| | Disc Two: | | Additional Release Material:
| Audio Commentary | | Music Video - 1. Michael Penn - TRY | | Deleted Scenes/Outtakes - 1. Optional Commentary | | Hidden Features |
| | Text/Photo Galleries:
| Biographies - 1. Cast & Crew | | 2. Characters from film | | Additional Text - 1. JOHN C. REILLY FILES |
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| Technical Info
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Release Information
|  | Studio: New Line |
| Release Date: 10/7/2003 |
| Running Time: 155 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1997 | | Catalog ID: 5033 | | UPC: 00794043503320 | | Number of Discs: 2 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English [CC], English, French Dubbed | | Available Subtitles: English, French, Spanish | | Video: Color |
| Cast & Crew
| Memorable Quotes| "I've got a feeling that behind those jeans is something wonderful just waiting to get out."----Jack Horner (Burt Reynolds), upon first meeting Dirk Diggler (Mark Wahlberg) | | "Aren't you gonna take your skates off?"----Dirk Diggler to Rollergirl (Heather Graham)|"I never take my skates off."----Rollergirl | | "You're not the boss of me, Jack! You're not the king of Dirk! I'm the boss of me! I'm the king of me. I'm Dirk Diggler! I'm the star!"----Dirk Diggler to Jack Horner | | "That's not an MP, that's a YP----your problem. Come up with the money or forget about it."----Record producer to Dirk Diggler and Reed Rothchild (John C. Reilly) | | "I am a star. I'm a star, I'm a star, I'm a star. I'm a big, bright, shining star."----Dirk Diggler (the last lines of the film) |
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| | Professional Reviews | Entertainment Weekly
Ranked #2 in Entertainment Weekly's "10 Favorite Films of the '90s" - "...Bravura....An ecstatic act of filmmaking..." 04/01/2000 p.159Sight and Sound
"...A hilariously engaging and at times bleakly disturbing chronicle..." 01/01/1998 o,36-7 USA Today
"...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 10/10/1997 p.1D Entertainment Weekly
"...[A] wild, virtuosic, ecstatically outrageous epic....Mark Wahlberg comes through with his first full-scale performance: ingenuous, sultry, starmaking..." 09/26/1997 p.52-4 Chicago Sun-Times
"...The kind of grimy, intense, passionate film we identify more with the 1970s than with today's slick productions..." 09/12/1997 p.43 Chicago Sun-Times
"...BOOGIE NIGHTS has the quality of many great films, in that it always seems alive..." 10/17/1997 p.35 |
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