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Boogie Nights

1997 · Movie · 149 min

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Scores

  • Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer94%as of 2024-11-08
  • Rotten Tomatoes average8.1/10as of 2021-10-05
  • Metacritic86/100as of 2025-10-17

What it is

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.

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Genres
Drama
Original language
English

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