Who is boogie nights movie about

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September 12, Stream on Demand. December 16, Common Sense Says Unflinching look at porn industry; lots of sex, drugs. Parents need to know that Boogie Nights is a movie for adults with extensive sexuality, drug use, violence, and vulgar language. Sexual acts some with full nudity occur throughout with startling realism. Vivid depictions of drug use and addiction are intense and purposefully wrenching. Eddie is young, good looking and plenty of libido to spare.

Using the screen name Dirk Diggler, he quickly rises to the top of his industry winning awards year after year. Drugs and ego however come between Dirk and those around him and he soon finds that fame is fleeting. In , sex was safe, pleasure was a business, and business was booming.

Rated R for strong sex scenes with explicit dialogue, nudity, drug use, language and violence. Did you know Edit. Trivia After seeing a rough cut of the film, Burt Reynolds regretted making it. He fired his agent for recommending the role to him, and did not participate in promotional interviews.

Reynolds ended up winning a Golden Globe for the role, and being nominated for an Academy Award for his performance. Despite being a front runner for the latter, it was widely rumored that he did not win because he had distanced himself from the movie earlier. Goofs When Little Bill complains to the cinematographer about his wife having sex with other men, he says, "My fucking wife's on the driveway with a fucking ass in her cock. Crazy credits As the credit for Robert Downey Sr.

Alternate versions New Line Platinum Edition, released on DVD, features 9 additional scenes not included in the original theatrical version. The sell through widescreen VHS tape also has the deleted scenes.

User reviews Review. Top review. The first time I saw "Boogie Nights" in a theater, I walked out flabbergasted. I'd never been that affected by a movie since "Pulp Fiction" and that's saying a lot. After being numbed by a decade's worth of stark, Kevin Smith-style indie banalities, I just wasn't used to seeing a movie that covered that much emotional and cultural ground. I saw it three more times in the theater, never getting bored with it.

I own it today on video. I really can't say enough great things about this amazing movie. A movie which will no doubt be regarded as a classic in years to come. Jan 23, FAQ What was the inspiration for this story? John was born in Ohio and moved to California when he was an adult, spent time in the military, and by most accounts had a good relationship with his mother all unlike Dirk. Holmes also worked at a time when the legality of the porn industry was in question, partly seen in Boogie Nights with the Colonel.

Holmes was able to get away with his job by often being an informant for the LAPD vice squad. Other details, such as Holmes's involvement in the Wonderland Murders, his grooming and abuse of a year-old girlfriend when he was 32, his work in homosexual porno films, and his death from AIDS were all left out of Dirk Diggler's life as well. Boogie Nights , while harrowing at times for many of its characters, has an ending that could ostensibly be called a happy one, which can't be said for Holmes's own life story.

This isn't to say that everything in Boogie Nights is fictional. While all the characters and events were created for the film, it still takes quite a bit of inspiration from John Holmes's life.

Besides that, the film also follows the general arc of Dirk becoming famous, then getting addicted to cocaine, then torching his porn acting career because of it. Holmes was the same way, and just like Dirk in the film, his cocaine addiction made it so that he had trouble getting an erection, which is a death sentence in that industry as one can imagine.

Holmes and Dirk both then turned to crime and drugs, and while the shootout at the drug dealer's played by Alfred Molina house is not in any way similar to the notorious Wonderland Murders Holmes was involved in, they no doubt served as inspiration at least in some part. What's interesting about the movie is that some of the details about Dirk that weren't taken from Holmes's life were instead lifted from Anderson's own.

Furthermore, Dirk's emotionally abusive mother allegedly is inspired by PTA's own mother, whom it's known Anderson did not get along with.