everything that you need to know about the pornography of the late 70 and early 80 be all wrap up in paul thomas anderson boogie night . although the film be completely fictional and it be actually supposedly base on the story of porno kingpin john holmes . in southern california in 1977 and eddie adam ( mark wahlberg ) be work a a busboy in a nightclub . one of the regular customer be pornographer jack horner ( burt reynolds ) and two of his starlet and amber wave ( julianne moore ) and rollergirl ( heather graham ) . jack and eddie meet and jack realize that eddie be well . a little . gift . so eddie star in jack film under the pseudonym of dirk diggler . he become a big porno star ( no pun intend ) and seem to be on top of everything . then come the 80 when video replaces film and jack porno empire begin to collapse and along with dirk diggler and everybody else work in the field . boogie night be a really well filmed drama . there be a little bit of violence and but p. t. anderson make it more stylized . and it kind of be a scathing approach to the degradation of pornography and especially when vhs become the standard medium for make porno . a lot of bizarre and unique character be introduce . william h. macy have an interesting role a someone work on the film and whose wife keep have sex with everybody . i especially liked don cheadle role a buck the stereo salesman . the best performance be boogie night be definitely burt reynolds . a 90 classic .