Boogie Nights

Boogie Nights is a 1997 American drama film written, produced and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. It is set in Los Angeles San Fernando Valley and focuses on a young nightclub dishwasher, who becomes a popular star of pornographic films, chronicling his rise in the Golden Age of Porn of the 1970s through to his fall during the excesses of the 80s. The film is an expansion of Andersons mockumentary short film The Dirk Diggler Story 1988.

In 1977, Eddie Adams is a high school dropout who lives with his stepfather and emotionally abusive alcoholic mother in Torrance, California. He works at the Reseda nightclub owned by Maurice Rodriguez, where he meets porn director Jack Horner, who auditions him by watching him have sex with Rollergirl, a porn starlet who always wears skates. After a heated argument with his mother about his girlfriend and sex life, Adams moves in with Horner at his San Fernando Valley home. Adams gives himself the screen name Dirk Diggler, and becomes a star because of his good looks, youthful charisma and unusually large penis. His success allows him to buy a new house, an extensive wardrobe and a competition orange 1977 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray. He and his friend, porn star Reed Rothchild, pitch and star in a series of successful actionthemed porn films. Ostensibly, Dirk works and socializes with the others from the porn industry, and live carefree lifestyles in the late 70s disco era. However, that changes at a New Years Eve party at Horners house marking the year 1980, when assistant director Little Bill Thompson discovers his porn star wife having sex with another man, shoots them with a gun and kills himself.Shortly afterward, Dirk and Reed begin using cocaine. Due to Dirks habit, he finds it increasingly difficult to achieve an erection, falls into violent mood swings and becomes upset with Johnny Doe, as a new leading man that Jack recruited. In 1983, after having an argument with Jack who refuses to shoot the films scene, Dirk is fired, and he and Reed leave to start their rock and roll career along with Scotty, a boom operator who is in love with Dirk. Jack previously rejected business overtures from Floyd Gondolli, a theater magnate in San Diego and San Francisco, who insists on cutting costs by shooting on videotape, because Jack believes that the videotapes will diminish the quality of his films. However, after his friend and financier Colonel James is imprisoned f

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