--- title: 'Boogie Nights (1997)' type: 'film' director: 'Paul Thomas Anderson' released: '1997-01-01' runtime_minutes: 149 genres: - 'Drama' countries: - 'United States' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/boogie-nights-1997' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118749/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # Boogie Nights (1997) 1997 · 149 min · Drama · United States ## Synopsis Boogie Nights is a 1997 American comedy-drama film written, directed, and co-produced by Paul Thomas Anderson. It is set in Los Angeles' San Fernando Valley and concerns 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 his fall during the excesses of the 1980s. The film is an expansion of Anderson's mockumentary short film The Dirk Diggler Story (1988), and stars Mark Wahlberg, Julianne Moore, Burt Reynolds, Don Cheadle, John C. Reilly, William H. Macy, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Nicole Ari Parker, and Heather Graham. ## Credits - **Original Music Composer:** [Michael Penn](https://cinepixo.com/people/michael-penn) - **Director:** [Paul Thomas Anderson](https://cinepixo.com/people/paul-thomas-anderson) - **Screenplay:** [Paul Thomas Anderson](https://cinepixo.com/people/paul-thomas-anderson) - **Producer:** [Paul Thomas Anderson](https://cinepixo.com/people/paul-thomas-anderson), [Lloyd Levin](https://cinepixo.com/people/lloyd-levin), [JoAnne Sellar](https://cinepixo.com/people/joanne-sellar), [John S. Lyons](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-s-lyons) - **Editor:** [Dylan Tichenor](https://cinepixo.com/people/dylan-tichenor) ## Cast - [Tony Tedeschi](https://cinepixo.com/people/tony-tedeschi) - [Joanna Gleason](https://cinepixo.com/people/joanna-gleason) as Dirk’s mother - [Alfred Molina](https://cinepixo.com/people/alfred-molina) as Rahad Jackson - [Channon Roe](https://cinepixo.com/people/channon-roe) - [Mark Wahlberg](https://cinepixo.com/people/mark-wahlberg) as Eddie Adams / Dirk Diggler - [Jon Brion](https://cinepixo.com/people/jon-brion) - [Thomas Jane](https://cinepixo.com/people/thomas-jane) as Todd Parker - [Michael Jace](https://cinepixo.com/people/michael-jace) - [Michael Penn](https://cinepixo.com/people/michael-penn) as Nick the Engineer - [William H. Macy](https://cinepixo.com/people/william-h-macy) as Bill "Little Bill" Thompson - [Burt Reynolds](https://cinepixo.com/people/burt-reynolds) as Jack Horner - [Philip Baker Hall](https://cinepixo.com/people/philip-baker-hall) as Floyd Gondolli - [Nicole Ari Parker](https://cinepixo.com/people/nicole-ari-parker) as Becky Barnett - [Melora Walters](https://cinepixo.com/people/melora-walters) as Jessie St. Vincent - [Don Cheadle](https://cinepixo.com/people/don-cheadle) as Buck Swope ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/boogie-nights-1997 Film facts: Wikidata (Q291170); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.