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Even if the notorious 1970s porn-filmmaking milieu doesn't exactly turn you on, don't let it turn you off to this movie's extraordinary virtues, either. Boogie Nights is one of the key movies of the 1990s, and among the most ambitious and exuberantly alive American movies in years. It's also the breakthrough for an amazing new director, whose dazzling kaleidoscopic style here recalls the Robert Altman of Nashville and the Martin Scorsese of GoodFellas. Although loosely based on the sleazy life and times of real-life porn legend John Holmes, at heart it's a classic Hollywood rise-and-fall fable: a naive, good-looking young busboy is discovered in a San Fernando Valley disco by a famous motion picture producer, becomes a hotshot movie star, lives the high life, and then loses everything when he gets too big for his britches, succumbs to insobriety, and is left behind by new times and new technology. Of course, it ain't exactly A Star Is Born or Singin' in the Rain. Writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson (in only his second feature!) puts his own affectionately sardonic twist on the old showbiz biopic formula: the ambitious upstart changes his name and achieves stardom in porno films as "Dirk Diggler." Instead of drinking to excess, he snorts cocaine (the classic drug of '70s hedonism); and it's the coming of home video (rather than talkies) that helps to dash his big-screen dreams. As for the britches ... well, the controversial "money shot" explains everything. And the cast is one of the great ensembles of the '90s, including Oscar nominees Burt Reynolds and Julianne Moore, Mark Wahlberg (who really can act--from the waist up, too!), Heather Graham (as Rollergirl), William H. Macy, John C. Reilly, and Ricky Jay. --Jim Emerson
Description
From Hollywood's hottest new director comes the outrageous epic that throws the covers back on California's adult entertainment industry in the swinging seventies. It's a touching and often humorous portrait of a most unusual family of filmakers, brought
Customer Reviews:
A Better Film Than It Used To Be (Figure That One Out...).......2007-09-06
Those who think of Boogie Nights as a porn movie (or even a movie about porn) or whose primary lingering impression of the film is a salacious remembrance of Mark Wahlberg's crowning glory in the last scene are really missing out on what made Paul Thomas Anderson's trip back to the adult film industry of the 1970's such a great story. Okay, let me concede right off that watching good-looking young people cavort skyclad in protracted segments of simulated swivying isn't without its appeal, but beyond that, Boogie Nights recreated a bygone time and place and non-judgmentally cast out a story about complex characters who lived amoral lives, and did all this in such a way that not only does any viewer with half a soul come to care about people who might otherwise easily repel him, but it also rapidly becomes apparent that these same people also care about each other. With its depiction of the rise and fall and apparent rise (hey, no pun intended, I promise) of a porn star named Dirk Diggler and the transition of the adult industry from film to home video, Boogie Nights races through subplots about ambition, societal punishment of deviation, the consequences of drug abuse and marital infidelity, unrequited homosexual attraction, and its revelation of how a family can be created from unlikely strangers. This truly is a movie about a lot more than just the making of porn. It was also supposed to do for Burt Reynolds's career what Pulp Fiction did for John Travolta's, but this was not to be. Furthermore, seeing this 1997 movie in 2007 adds perspective, not only in that we are now an additional decade removed from the mores of 1970's, but as a means of reflecting on how we as a society have matured (or not) as based on how we are able to regard Boogie Nights today.
Dated Masterpiece.......2007-07-29
If you know and love the 70s, this will please you. I can't imagine what it would be like to see it now if you are too young to remember those days. The film stirred up a lot of attention at the time. The director rightfully received lots of attention and praise from the right quarters. The film's vulgarity has its own message. Casting Burt Reynolds was a stroke of genius. Who knew how completely Reynolds would fulfill the role of the porno film director? One forgets that smirk. Nobody can smirk like that; not, that is, until the arrival of George Bush on to the national scene. The cast is without a doubt one of the best in film history, Not since Coppola found Pacino and company has a film introduced so many major talents to the world. Mark Wahlberg, Julianne Moore, William H. Macy, Don Cheadle, John Reilly: and the amazing thing is that they have all gone on to stardom. Young Hoffman, a brilliant actor in his own right, is hilarious as the paunchy gay boy. The film is profoundly revealing, deep, and at the same time a major entertainment, light airy, colorful, sexy. It is simultaneously an indictment and a celebration of the era, its perversions and its breakthroughs. We are both better people and far worse off since those heady times. The film gives us a glimpse into this past time of bewilderment, waste, and bravery.
Boogie Nights.......2007-07-11
Loosely based on the life of '70s erotic-film stud John Holmes, Anderson's surprisingly human second feature is an Altmanesque blend of wistful humor and naturalistic ensemble acting. Dirk quickly discovers his "real" family in the cozy, coke-fueled decadence of Horner's misfit milieu, where he's nurtured by maternal porn actress Amber Waves (Moore), and befriended by numerous quirky types played by a who's who of '90s A-listers: Heather Graham, John C. Reilly, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Don Cheadle, and William H. Macy. An offbeat gem, with a tongue-in-cheek "money shot" that'll make your jaw drop.
Great movie.......2007-06-19
I was pleasantly surprised by Mark Wahlberg's emotional depth in this film. Who knew he could act? The story is basically about a group of lonely people who get together and find a strange comfort in one another and decide to embark on a career in porn. Ironic, dark and sad, but very deep.
A Star Is Born ... Sort of.......2007-06-13
When this movie came out, I wondered how this could possibly live up to the hype it had generated. Boy was I pleasently surprised to see that this movie did just that.
Mark Wahlberg divorced himself forever from his former Marky Mark persona when he plays a fresh faced loser who works as a busboy at a disco. One night, he is approached by none other than Burt Reynolds, making him the proverbial offer he can't refuse. So he accepts, rechristens himself Dirk Diggler, and becomes absorbed into the world of adult films. Here he meets the family he never had, achieves the success he never thought he was capable of, and is on top of the world. His ego is out of control, and he dives headfirst into drugs. Based loosely on the biography of 70s porn star John Holmes, Dirk and his friends narrowly escape violence (while John Holmes would be ruined by his association with the Wonderland murders).
What is the point of this? Some were wondering, myself included. The true horror of this story is not just in Dirk's story, but in the antics of the other characters. Amber Waves wants to see her son but her ex husband won't allow it because of who she is and who she hangs around with. Burt Reynolds is trying to make art in an industry that is admittedly sleezy and is drowning in a sea of videotape and amateurs. One and his wife just want to get out of the industry all together and start over, but they hit dead ends in jobs and bank loans. Roller Girl just wants to be more than the girl on skates. And the characters that you see at the parties - young, innocent faces who are taken advantage of somehow.
The cocaine scenes capture the paranoia of drug abuse perhaps better than any other scene in movie history (with the possible second of Good Fellas when Ray Liotta thought he was being followed by the helicopter). And perhaps the most telling of scenes, for me, was when Burt (a.k.a. Jack Horner) takes Roller Girl out on the town in his limo, wanting to film a random encounter. It just so happens the man they pick up off the street was an old high school classmate of Roller Girl's. He's willing to do the deed with her just like every other pig frat boy man (hard and fast and not sexy), and he puts her down afterwards. She was attempting to be in charge, to show him who really had the power. While the crew beats him up, Roller Girl gives him what for. If that's not a microcosim of the porn industry thoughts and feelings, I don't know what is.
What is the point? The point is that they all just wanted to be loved. And the end? When they all come back together? It's the prodigal son story, all of them coming back together and reconstituting their family. This is where they find love. It's a happy ending after all. Strange? Well, sure it is. But not as strange as all the situations of people who have left their families or real friends to return for forgiveness. And we do forgive, and we become families again.
Average customer rating:
- A Better Film Than It Used To Be (Figure That One Out...)
- Dated Masterpiece
- Boogie Nights
- Great movie
- A Star Is Born ... Sort of
|
Boogie Nights
Starring:
Mark Wahlberg ,
Burt Reynolds ,
John C. Reilly ,
Julianne Moore , and
Heather Graham
Director:
Paul Thomas Anderson
Manufacturer: New Line Home Video
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Release Date: 1998-04-07 |
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Even if the notorious 1970s porn-filmmaking milieu doesn't exactly turn you on, don't let it turn you off to this movie's extraordinary virtues, either. Boogie Nights is one of the key movies of the 1990s, and among the most ambitious and exuberantly alive American movies in years. It's also the breakthrough for an amazing new director, whose dazzling kaleidoscopic style here recalls the Robert Altman of Nashville and the Martin Scorsese of GoodFellas. Although loosely based on the sleazy life and times of real-life porn legend John Holmes, at heart it's a classic Hollywood rise-and-fall fable: a naive, good-looking young busboy is discovered in a San Fernando Valley disco by a famous motion picture producer, becomes a hotshot movie star, lives the high life, and then loses everything when he gets too big for his britches, succumbs to insobriety, and is left behind by new times and new technology. Of course, it ain't exactly A Star Is Born or Singin' in the Rain. Writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson (in only his second feature!) puts his own affectionately sardonic twist on the old showbiz biopic formula: the ambitious upstart changes his name and achieves stardom in porno films as "Dirk Diggler." Instead of drinking to excess, he snorts cocaine (the classic drug of '70s hedonism); and it's the coming of home video (rather than talkies) that helps to dash his big-screen dreams. As for the britches ... well, the controversial "money shot" explains everything. And the cast is one of the great ensembles of the '90s, including Oscar nominees Burt Reynolds and Julianne Moore, Mark Wahlberg (who really can act--from the waist up, too!), Heather Graham (as Rollergirl), William H. Macy, John C. Reilly, and Ricky Jay. DVD extras include nine deleted scenes and a commentary track from Anderson. --Jim Emerson
Customer Reviews:
A Better Film Than It Used To Be (Figure That One Out...).......2007-09-06
Those who think of Boogie Nights as a porn movie (or even a movie about porn) or whose primary lingering impression of the film is a salacious remembrance of Mark Wahlberg's crowning glory in the last scene are really missing out on what made Paul Thomas Anderson's trip back to the adult film industry of the 1970's such a great story. Okay, let me concede right off that watching good-looking young people cavort skyclad in protracted segments of simulated swivying isn't without its appeal, but beyond that, Boogie Nights recreated a bygone time and place and non-judgmentally cast out a story about complex characters who lived amoral lives, and did all this in such a way that not only does any viewer with half a soul come to care about people who might otherwise easily repel him, but it also rapidly becomes apparent that these same people also care about each other. With its depiction of the rise and fall and apparent rise (hey, no pun intended, I promise) of a porn star named Dirk Diggler and the transition of the adult industry from film to home video, Boogie Nights races through subplots about ambition, societal punishment of deviation, the consequences of drug abuse and marital infidelity, unrequited homosexual attraction, and its revelation of how a family can be created from unlikely strangers. This truly is a movie about a lot more than just the making of porn. It was also supposed to do for Burt Reynolds's career what Pulp Fiction did for John Travolta's, but this was not to be. Furthermore, seeing this 1997 movie in 2007 adds perspective, not only in that we are now an additional decade removed from the mores of 1970's, but as a means of reflecting on how we as a society have matured (or not) as based on how we are able to regard Boogie Nights today.
Dated Masterpiece.......2007-07-29
If you know and love the 70s, this will please you. I can't imagine what it would be like to see it now if you are too young to remember those days. The film stirred up a lot of attention at the time. The director rightfully received lots of attention and praise from the right quarters. The film's vulgarity has its own message. Casting Burt Reynolds was a stroke of genius. Who knew how completely Reynolds would fulfill the role of the porno film director? One forgets that smirk. Nobody can smirk like that; not, that is, until the arrival of George Bush on to the national scene. The cast is without a doubt one of the best in film history, Not since Coppola found Pacino and company has a film introduced so many major talents to the world. Mark Wahlberg, Julianne Moore, William H. Macy, Don Cheadle, John Reilly: and the amazing thing is that they have all gone on to stardom. Young Hoffman, a brilliant actor in his own right, is hilarious as the paunchy gay boy. The film is profoundly revealing, deep, and at the same time a major entertainment, light airy, colorful, sexy. It is simultaneously an indictment and a celebration of the era, its perversions and its breakthroughs. We are both better people and far worse off since those heady times. The film gives us a glimpse into this past time of bewilderment, waste, and bravery.
Boogie Nights.......2007-07-11
Loosely based on the life of '70s erotic-film stud John Holmes, Anderson's surprisingly human second feature is an Altmanesque blend of wistful humor and naturalistic ensemble acting. Dirk quickly discovers his "real" family in the cozy, coke-fueled decadence of Horner's misfit milieu, where he's nurtured by maternal porn actress Amber Waves (Moore), and befriended by numerous quirky types played by a who's who of '90s A-listers: Heather Graham, John C. Reilly, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Don Cheadle, and William H. Macy. An offbeat gem, with a tongue-in-cheek "money shot" that'll make your jaw drop.
Great movie.......2007-06-19
I was pleasantly surprised by Mark Wahlberg's emotional depth in this film. Who knew he could act? The story is basically about a group of lonely people who get together and find a strange comfort in one another and decide to embark on a career in porn. Ironic, dark and sad, but very deep.
A Star Is Born ... Sort of.......2007-06-13
When this movie came out, I wondered how this could possibly live up to the hype it had generated. Boy was I pleasently surprised to see that this movie did just that.
Mark Wahlberg divorced himself forever from his former Marky Mark persona when he plays a fresh faced loser who works as a busboy at a disco. One night, he is approached by none other than Burt Reynolds, making him the proverbial offer he can't refuse. So he accepts, rechristens himself Dirk Diggler, and becomes absorbed into the world of adult films. Here he meets the family he never had, achieves the success he never thought he was capable of, and is on top of the world. His ego is out of control, and he dives headfirst into drugs. Based loosely on the biography of 70s porn star John Holmes, Dirk and his friends narrowly escape violence (while John Holmes would be ruined by his association with the Wonderland murders).
What is the point of this? Some were wondering, myself included. The true horror of this story is not just in Dirk's story, but in the antics of the other characters. Amber Waves wants to see her son but her ex husband won't allow it because of who she is and who she hangs around with. Burt Reynolds is trying to make art in an industry that is admittedly sleezy and is drowning in a sea of videotape and amateurs. One and his wife just want to get out of the industry all together and start over, but they hit dead ends in jobs and bank loans. Roller Girl just wants to be more than the girl on skates. And the characters that you see at the parties - young, innocent faces who are taken advantage of somehow.
The cocaine scenes capture the paranoia of drug abuse perhaps better than any other scene in movie history (with the possible second of Good Fellas when Ray Liotta thought he was being followed by the helicopter). And perhaps the most telling of scenes, for me, was when Burt (a.k.a. Jack Horner) takes Roller Girl out on the town in his limo, wanting to film a random encounter. It just so happens the man they pick up off the street was an old high school classmate of Roller Girl's. He's willing to do the deed with her just like every other pig frat boy man (hard and fast and not sexy), and he puts her down afterwards. She was attempting to be in charge, to show him who really had the power. While the crew beats him up, Roller Girl gives him what for. If that's not a microcosim of the porn industry thoughts and feelings, I don't know what is.
What is the point? The point is that they all just wanted to be loved. And the end? When they all come back together? It's the prodigal son story, all of them coming back together and reconstituting their family. This is where they find love. It's a happy ending after all. Strange? Well, sure it is. But not as strange as all the situations of people who have left their families or real friends to return for forgiveness. And we do forgive, and we become families again.
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Boogie Nights
Starring:
Don Cheadle ,
Heather Graham ,
Philip Baker Hall ,
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Director:
Paul Thomas Anderson
Manufacturer: New Line Home Video
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Even if the notorious 1970s porn-filmmaking milieu doesn't exactly turn you on, don't let it turn you off to this movie's extraordinary virtues, either. Boogie Nights is one of the key movies of the 1990s, and among the most ambitious and exuberantly alive American movies in years. It's also the breakthrough for an amazing new director, whose dazzling kaleidoscopic style here recalls the Robert Altman of Nashville and the Martin Scorsese of GoodFellas. Although loosely based on the sleazy life and times of real-life porn legend John Holmes, at heart it's a classic Hollywood rise-and-fall fable: a naive, good-looking young busboy is discovered in a San Fernando Valley disco by a famous motion picture producer, becomes a hotshot movie star, lives the high life, and then loses everything when he gets too big for his britches, succumbs to insobriety, and is left behind by new times and new technology. Of course, it ain't exactly A Star Is Born or Singin' in the Rain. Writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson (in only his second feature!) puts his own affectionately sardonic twist on the old showbiz biopic formula: the ambitious upstart changes his name and achieves stardom in porno films as "Dirk Diggler." Instead of drinking to excess, he snorts cocaine (the classic drug of '70s hedonism); and it's the coming of home video (rather than talkies) that helps to dash his big-screen dreams. As for the britches ... well, the controversial "money shot" explains everything. And the cast is one of the great ensembles of the '90s, including Oscar nominees Burt Reynolds and Julianne Moore, Mark Wahlberg (who really can act--from the waist up, too!), Heather Graham (as Rollergirl), William H. Macy, John C. Reilly, and Ricky Jay. --Jim Emerson
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A Better Film Than It Used To Be (Figure That One Out...).......2007-09-06
Those who think of Boogie Nights as a porn movie (or even a movie about porn) or whose primary lingering impression of the film is a salacious remembrance of Mark Wahlberg's crowning glory in the last scene are really missing out on what made Paul Thomas Anderson's trip back to the adult film industry of the 1970's such a great story. Okay, let me concede right off that watching good-looking young people cavort skyclad in protracted segments of simulated swivying isn't without its appeal, but beyond that, Boogie Nights recreated a bygone time and place and non-judgmentally cast out a story about complex characters who lived amoral lives, and did all this in such a way that not only does any viewer with half a soul come to care about people who might otherwise easily repel him, but it also rapidly becomes apparent that these same people also care about each other. With its depiction of the rise and fall and apparent rise (hey, no pun intended, I promise) of a porn star named Dirk Diggler and the transition of the adult industry from film to home video, Boogie Nights races through subplots about ambition, societal punishment of deviation, the consequences of drug abuse and marital infidelity, unrequited homosexual attraction, and its revelation of how a family can be created from unlikely strangers. This truly is a movie about a lot more than just the making of porn. It was also supposed to do for Burt Reynolds's career what Pulp Fiction did for John Travolta's, but this was not to be. Furthermore, seeing this 1997 movie in 2007 adds perspective, not only in that we are now an additional decade removed from the mores of 1970's, but as a means of reflecting on how we as a society have matured (or not) as based on how we are able to regard Boogie Nights today.
Dated Masterpiece.......2007-07-29
If you know and love the 70s, this will please you. I can't imagine what it would be like to see it now if you are too young to remember those days. The film stirred up a lot of attention at the time. The director rightfully received lots of attention and praise from the right quarters. The film's vulgarity has its own message. Casting Burt Reynolds was a stroke of genius. Who knew how completely Reynolds would fulfill the role of the porno film director? One forgets that smirk. Nobody can smirk like that; not, that is, until the arrival of George Bush on to the national scene. The cast is without a doubt one of the best in film history, Not since Coppola found Pacino and company has a film introduced so many major talents to the world. Mark Wahlberg, Julianne Moore, William H. Macy, Don Cheadle, John Reilly: and the amazing thing is that they have all gone on to stardom. Young Hoffman, a brilliant actor in his own right, is hilarious as the paunchy gay boy. The film is profoundly revealing, deep, and at the same time a major entertainment, light airy, colorful, sexy. It is simultaneously an indictment and a celebration of the era, its perversions and its breakthroughs. We are both better people and far worse off since those heady times. The film gives us a glimpse into this past time of bewilderment, waste, and bravery.
Boogie Nights.......2007-07-11
Loosely based on the life of '70s erotic-film stud John Holmes, Anderson's surprisingly human second feature is an Altmanesque blend of wistful humor and naturalistic ensemble acting. Dirk quickly discovers his "real" family in the cozy, coke-fueled decadence of Horner's misfit milieu, where he's nurtured by maternal porn actress Amber Waves (Moore), and befriended by numerous quirky types played by a who's who of '90s A-listers: Heather Graham, John C. Reilly, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Don Cheadle, and William H. Macy. An offbeat gem, with a tongue-in-cheek "money shot" that'll make your jaw drop.
Great movie.......2007-06-19
I was pleasantly surprised by Mark Wahlberg's emotional depth in this film. Who knew he could act? The story is basically about a group of lonely people who get together and find a strange comfort in one another and decide to embark on a career in porn. Ironic, dark and sad, but very deep.
A Star Is Born ... Sort of.......2007-06-13
When this movie came out, I wondered how this could possibly live up to the hype it had generated. Boy was I pleasently surprised to see that this movie did just that.
Mark Wahlberg divorced himself forever from his former Marky Mark persona when he plays a fresh faced loser who works as a busboy at a disco. One night, he is approached by none other than Burt Reynolds, making him the proverbial offer he can't refuse. So he accepts, rechristens himself Dirk Diggler, and becomes absorbed into the world of adult films. Here he meets the family he never had, achieves the success he never thought he was capable of, and is on top of the world. His ego is out of control, and he dives headfirst into drugs. Based loosely on the biography of 70s porn star John Holmes, Dirk and his friends narrowly escape violence (while John Holmes would be ruined by his association with the Wonderland murders).
What is the point of this? Some were wondering, myself included. The true horror of this story is not just in Dirk's story, but in the antics of the other characters. Amber Waves wants to see her son but her ex husband won't allow it because of who she is and who she hangs around with. Burt Reynolds is trying to make art in an industry that is admittedly sleezy and is drowning in a sea of videotape and amateurs. One and his wife just want to get out of the industry all together and start over, but they hit dead ends in jobs and bank loans. Roller Girl just wants to be more than the girl on skates. And the characters that you see at the parties - young, innocent faces who are taken advantage of somehow.
The cocaine scenes capture the paranoia of drug abuse perhaps better than any other scene in movie history (with the possible second of Good Fellas when Ray Liotta thought he was being followed by the helicopter). And perhaps the most telling of scenes, for me, was when Burt (a.k.a. Jack Horner) takes Roller Girl out on the town in his limo, wanting to film a random encounter. It just so happens the man they pick up off the street was an old high school classmate of Roller Girl's. He's willing to do the deed with her just like every other pig frat boy man (hard and fast and not sexy), and he puts her down afterwards. She was attempting to be in charge, to show him who really had the power. While the crew beats him up, Roller Girl gives him what for. If that's not a microcosim of the porn industry thoughts and feelings, I don't know what is.
What is the point? The point is that they all just wanted to be loved. And the end? When they all come back together? It's the prodigal son story, all of them coming back together and reconstituting their family. This is where they find love. It's a happy ending after all. Strange? Well, sure it is. But not as strange as all the situations of people who have left their families or real friends to return for forgiveness. And we do forgive, and we become families again.
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Shark / Last Hour / Beyond Obsession / Lethal Victims / Subterfuge / the Cape Town Affair [6 Movie Set]
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6 MOVIE SET; SHARK starring: Burt Reynolds / LAST HOUR starring: Shannon Tweed / SUBTERFUGE starring: Joan Collins / THE CAPE TOWN AFFAIR starring: Jacqueline Bisset / BEYOND OBSESSION starring: Tom Berenger / LETHAL VICTIMS starring: Martin Landau ***SPECIAL FEATURES*** DIGITALLY REMASTERED WITH CHAPTER STOPS & INTERACTIVE MENUS.
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Charlie speaks with author and star of the film Boogie Nights Mark Wahlberg about his transition from the rapper to actor. Next, filmmaker Ang Lee, novelist Rick Moody, and screenwriter James Schamus discuss their successful new film, The Ice Storm, which was adapted from the book by Rick Moody and stars Sigourney Weaver, Jessica Lange and Kevin Kline. Finally, writer Paul Aster talks about his new book Hand to Mouth that chronicles the difficulties of surviving as a writer.
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Boogie Nights Disco Daze
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Release Date: 2007-05-28 |
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