
American Beauty(1999)
Lester Burnham, a depressed suburban father in a mid-life crisis, decides to turn his hectic life around after developing an infatuation with his daughter's attractive friend.


“The life of a dreamer, the days of a business and the nights in between.”
Set in 1977, back when sex was safe, pleasure was a business and business was booming, idealistic porn producer Jack Horner aspires to elevate his craft to an art form. Horner discovers Eddie Adams, a hot young talent working as a busboy in a nightclub, and welcomes him into the extended family of movie-makers, misfits and hangers-on that are always around. Adams' rise from nobody to a celebrity adult entertainer is meteoric, and soon the whole world seems to know his porn alter ego, "Dirk Diggler". Now, when disco and drugs are in vogue, fashion is in flux and the party never seems to stop, Adams' dreams of turning sex into stardom are about to collide with cold, hard reality.

Mark Wahlberg
Eddie Adams / Dirk Diggler

Burt Reynolds
Jack Horner

Julianne Moore
Amber Waves

John C. Reilly
Reed Rothchild

Heather Graham
Rollergirl

Don Cheadle
Buck Swope

Philip Seymour Hoffman
Scotty J.

William H. Macy
Little Bill

Thomas Jane
Todd Parker

Luis Guzmán
Maurice t.t. Rodriguez
Boogie Nights is a drama film released in 1997 exploring themes of new year's eve, adultery, pornography, robbery, husband wife relationship, drug abuse. Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, it stars Mark Wahlberg, Burt Reynolds, Julianne Moore. Set in 1977, back when sex was safe, pleasure was a business and business was booming, idealistic porn producer Jack Horner aspires to elevate his craft to an art form. Horner discovers Eddie Adams, a hot young talent working as a busboy in a nightclub, and welcomes him into the extended family of movie-makers, misfits and hangers-on that are always around. Adams' rise from nobody to a celebrity adult entertainer is meteoric, and soon the whole world seems to know his porn alter ego, "Dirk Diggler". Now, when disco and drugs are in vogue, fashion is in flux and the party never seems to stop, Adams' dreams of turning sex into stardom are about to collide with cold, hard reality.
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