Paul Thomas Anderson · 156m · 35mm
Everyone is given one special thing, and for the well-endowed adult film star Dirk Diggler, it’s his capacity to make love on film. Inspired by the real story of John Holmes and expanded from PTA's early mockumentary The Dirk Diggler Story, Boogie Nights tracks the heyday of the porn industry and disco in the San Fernando Valley before the arrival of the 1980s — bringing videotape, Reagan, cocaine, and AIDS, a collective death knell for the Golden Age of Porn.
