Stein, who has a small cameo in Boogie Nights, played the original Dirk. Anderson’s interest in the porn world – an X-rated origin story, if you like – is almost apocryphal.

Boogie Nights was nominated for three Academy Awards including Best Original Screenplay, Best Supporting Actress for Moore, and Best Supporting Actor for Reynolds.

Boogie Nights is of course about porn, the transition from film to video and the perhaps forgotten art of the well-crafted pornographic movie, a young lost soul looking for a mother figure, and ...

Boogie Nights is loosely based on the life of John Holmes, and Anderson based this sequence on his vague memory of an incident described in a 1979 Rolling Stone article, though he later discovered ...

Boogie Nights turns 20 this month, and its soundtrack is just as great as you remember it being.; Credit: New Line Cinema ...

Burt Reynolds is once again voicing his displeasure with Paul Thomas Anderson's masterpiece Boogie Nights, describing his dislike for the filmmaker in detail.