"Boogie Nights'' tells this story through the life of a kid named Eddie Adams (Mark Wahlberg) from the San Fernando Valley, who is a dishwasher in a "Boogie Nights'' has the quality of many great films, in that it always seems alive. A movie can be very good and yet not draw us in, not involve us in the. Boogie Nights is an excellent picture.
If Boogie Nights were poorly made and acted, its materials would make it intolerably tawdry. But its so well done that we keep watching. Boogie Nights, also included in the New York Film Festival, is another fireball in a time capsule.
A tumultuous two and a half-hour evocation of The Brady Bunch they ain't. But get one thing straight about the constantly surprising Boogie Nights: This R-rated movie is outrageous; it is not obscene. Question: When is a Martin Scorsese film not a Martin Scorsese film? Answer: When it's a Paul Thomas Anderson film. And that's the trouble with Anderson's "Boogie Nights", an ambitious exploration of the American porno. A movie review by James Berardinelli.
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The casting is immaculate and the overall style is movie-making at its finest. The exhilaration comes from the outrageousness of the subject matter, and. It is set in Los Angeles' San Fernando Valley and focuses on a young nightclub dishwasher who becomes a popular star of pornographic films.
Boogie Nights with Mark Wahlberg, Bert Reynolds, Julianne Moore, Don Cheadle, and William H. This insight into the porno movie industry was This insight into the porno movie industry was the type of movie that you can see many times. Beneath this simple story lies many complex subplots. Check out the exclusive TVGuide.com movie review and see our movie rating for Boogie Nights.