Boogie Nights [Region 2] |  | Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
Actors: Mark Wahlberg, Julianne Moore, Burt Reynolds, Luis Guzman, Rico Bueno
Category: DVD
Buy Used: $49.98
Rating:  317 reviews
Sales Rank: 186364
Format: Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 2
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Running Time: 155 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 5024165809754
ASIN: B00004D35S
Theatrical Release Date: October 10, 1997
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Even if the notorious 1970s porn-filmmaking milieu doesn't exactly turn you on, don't let it turn you off to this movie's extraordinary virtues, either. Boogie Nights is one of the key movies of the 1990s, and among the most ambitious and exuberantly alive American movies in years. It's also the breakthrough for an amazing new director, whose dazzling kaleidoscopic style here recalls the Robert Altman of Nashville and the Martin Scorsese of GoodFellas. Although loosely based on the sleazy life and times of real-life porn legend John Holmes, at heart it's a classic Hollywood rise-and-fall fable: a naive, good-looking young busboy is discovered in a San Fernando Valley disco by a famous motion picture producer, becomes a hotshot movie star, lives the high life, and then loses everything when he gets too big for his britches, succumbs to insobriety, and is left behind by new times and new technology. Of course, it ain't exactly A Star Is Born or Singin' in the Rain. Writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson (in only his second feature!) puts his own affectionately sardonic twist on the old showbiz biopic formula: the ambitious upstart changes his name and achieves stardom in porno films as "Dirk Diggler." Instead of drinking to excess, he snorts cocaine (the classic drug of '70s hedonism); and it's the coming of home video (rather than talkies) that helps to dash his big-screen dreams. As for the britches ... well, the controversial "money shot" explains everything. And the cast is one of the great ensembles of the '90s, including Oscar nominees Burt Reynolds and Julianne Moore, Mark Wahlberg (who really can act--from the waist up, too!), Heather Graham (as Rollergirl), William H. Macy, John C. Reilly, and Ricky Jay. --Jim Emerson
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 Boogie Nights June 21, 2009
Debra Kaduk
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
this is a great movie. To me it is a classic. Burt Reynolds was great. And of course Mark Walhberg is wonderful
 dvd won't play June 3, 2009
Sarah Hall (phenix city,AL USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This dvd won't play. I've tried on several different players. its not scratched up or anything it just doesn't play.
Life in a dumb decade April 28, 2009
Fernando Calzada (El Paso, Texas)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
If you were young in the seventies, the cultural references and the zeitgeist will make you laugh. Also the naive pretentiousness of the porn
pedelers is funny. There's also the drama of the ultimate emptiness of the life of most of the characters. Well rounded and enjoyable movie.
"One Of The Best Movies Ever Made!" April 6, 2009
Terry Richard (Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
"Boogie Nights" debut in theatres in October, 1997, and went on to cement itself as one of the best films Hollywood has ever produced. The film is about a young man, played brilliantly by Mark Walberg, who enters the porn industry because of a certain "asset" he possesses,and its through his character that we meet others, like him. The film has many storylines that are interwoven, and we soon see why these people, porn stars, porn producers, and the like, are brought together and why they stay together; they are almost like a family, as most have been disowned by their own.
The film is filled with some of the finest actors, like Julianne Moore, Burt Reynolds, and Phillip Seymour Hoffman. This is probably the best thing Reynolds has ever done, and Hoffman had his first starring role in this, playing a gay guy who falls in love with Dirk Diggler, played by Walberg.
One of the greatest transformations of any character in film takes place in this piece, as we see Dirk going from a shy, innocent young man to an arrogant, pompous, rude, drug infested person. "Boogie Nights" depicts what happens to many, who enter the porn industry, make a lot of many fast, and get caught up with hard drugs like cocaine.
The film is based on the life of legendary porn star John Holmes, who himself went from being the biggest star in adult cinema, to a coke addict who died very young from AIDS.
Paul Thomas Anderon, who also wrote the Tom Cruise vehicle "Magnolia", wrote and directed "Boogie Nights". The film garnered three Oscar nominations, including one for Burt Reynolds in the Best Supporting Actor Category. The movie would go on to gross over $40,000,000 at the world wide boxoffice.
This particular DVD is excellent, with newly restored audio and video and 10 deleted scenes. This set is similar to the Platinum Edition that came out years ago, but the print is cleaner and there is an amazing deleted scene in the newer DVD, that dramatizes Becky Barnet's life after she left porn. In this scene we discover she is being battered by her new husband that she married on New Years.
"Boogie Nights" is as best as movies can be, and it shows that people who do porn are indeed human, albeit, humans that are in an industry that are shunned upon by the average person, yet these average people are the first to secretly buy porn and view it for their personal pleasure.
Defective item - No subtitles March 20, 2009
Ho In Yang (Charlottesville, Virginia United States)
Note: This is not a review of the movie itself.
The DVD is advertised (even in its case) as providing subtitles for English, French and Spanish. Yes, the subtitle menu exists but they DO NOT work.
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