Boogie Nights

In 1977, high-school dropout Eddie Adams is living with his father and emotionally and physically abusive mother in Torrance, California. He works at a Reseda nightclub owned by Maurice Rodriguez, where he meets porn filmmaker Jack Horner. Interested in bringing Eddie into porn, Jack auditions the latter by watching him have sex with Rollergirl, a porn starlet who always wears roller skates.

After a fight with his alcoholic mother, Eddie moves in with Jack at his San Fernando Valley home. He gives himself the screen name "Dirk Diggler" and becomes a star because of his good looks, youthful charisma, and abnormally large penis. His success allows him to buy a new house, an extensive wardrobe, and a "competition orange" 1977 Chevrolet Corvette. With his friend and co-star Reed Rothchild, Dirk pitches a series of successful action-themed porn films. He works and socializes with others from the porn industry, and they live carefree lifestyles in the late 1970s disco era. While attending a New Year's Eve party at Horner's house on December 31, 1979, assistant director Little Bill Thompson discovers his adulterous wife having sex with another man. Bill, tired of being repeatedly cheated on, shoots the pair dead and commits suicide.

Dirk and Reed begin using cocaine on a regular basis. Due to his drug use, Dirk finds it increasingly difficult to achieve an erection, falls into violent mood swings, and becomes irritated with Johnny Doe, a rival leading man Jack has recently recruited, and whom Dirk worries will replace him. In 1983, after arguing with Jack, Dirk is fired and takes off with Reed to start a music career along with Scotty, a boom operator who is in love with Dirk. Jack rejects business overtures from Floyd Gondolli, a local theater magnate who insists on cutting costs by shooting on videotape rather than film stock, because Jack believes that video will diminish the quality of his films.

After his friend and financier, Colonel James, is incarcerated for possession of child pornography, Jack cooperates with Gondolli but becomes disillusioned with the work he is expected to churn out. One of these projects involves Jack and Rollergirl riding in a limousine, searching for random men for her to have sex with while being taped by a crew. One man recognizes Rollergirl as a former high-school classmate, and after a failed attempt at intercourse, he insults her and Jack. Both Jack and Rollergirl attack the man, leaving him bloodied on the sidewalk.

Leading lady Amber Waves lands in a custody battle with her ex-husband. The court determines that she is an unfit mother due to her involvement in the porn industry, criminal record, and cocaine addiction. Buck Swope marries fellow porn star Jessie St. Vincent, who becomes pregnant. Because of his past as a pornographer, Buck is disqualified from a bank loan and cannot open his own stereo equipment store. That night, he finds himself in the middle of a holdup at a donut shop in which the clerk, the robber, and an armed customer are killed. Buck is the sole survivor and escapes with the money.

Having spent most of their money on drugs, Dirk and Reed are unable to pay a recording studio for demo tapes they believe will enable them to become music stars. Desperate for money, Dirk resorts to prostitution but he is assaulted and robbed by three men. Dirk, Reed, and their friend Todd Parker attempt to scam local drug dealer Rahad Jackson at his estate by selling him a half-kilo of baking soda disguised as cocaine. Dirk and Reed intend to leave quickly before Rahad's bodyguard inspects it, but a drugged-up and armed Todd attempts to steal more money, as well as some more drugs, from Rahad. In the ensuing gunfight, Todd kills Rahad's bodyguard and is killed by Rahad, while Dirk and Reed narrowly escape. Dirk returns to Jack's home and they reconcile.

In 1984, Amber shoots the television commercial for the opening of Buck's store, Rollergirl takes a GED class, Maurice opens a nightclub with his brothers, Reed performs magic acts at a strip club, and Jessie gives birth to her and Buck's son. Dirk, Jack, and Amber prepare to start filming again.

{{cast list|

• Mark Wahlberg as Eddie Adams / Dirk Diggler
• Julianne Moore as Maggie / Amber Waves
• Burt Reynolds as Jack Horner
• Don Cheadle as Buck Swope
• John C. Reilly as Reed Rothchild
• William H. Macy as Little Bill
• Heather Graham as Brandy / Rollergirl
• Nicole Ari Parker as Becky Barnett
• Philip Seymour Hoffman as Scotty J.
• Luis Guzmán as Maurice Rodriguez / T. T. Rodriguez
• Philip Baker Hall as Floyd Gondolli
• Thomas Jane as Todd Parker
• Robert Ridgely as The Colonel James
• Robert Downey Sr. as Burt
• Nina Hartley as Little Bill's Wife
• Melora Walters as Jessie St. Vincent
• Alfred Molina as Rahad Jackson
• Ricky Jay as Kurt Longjohn
• Joanna Gleason as Dirk's mother
• Laurel Holloman as Sheryl Lynn
• Michael Jace as Jerome
• Michael Penn as Nick

}}

Boogie Nights is based on a mockumentary short film that Paul Thomas Anderson wrote and directed while he was still in high school called The Dirk Diggler Story. The short itself was based on the 1981 documentary Exhausted: John C. Holmes, The Real Story, a documentary about the life of legendary porn actor John Holmes, on whom Dirk Diggler is based.{{cite web | last=Kirk | first=Jeremy | title=37 Things We Learned From the 'Boogie Nights' Commentary | url=https://filmschoolrejects.com/37-things-we-learned-from-the-boogie-nights-commentary-fb8bba501524/ | work=Film School Rejects | date=September 13, 2012 | access-date=November 28, 2016 | archive-date=October 29, 2017 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171029065738/https://filmschoolrejects.com/37-things-we-learned-from-the-boogie-nights-commentary-fb8bba501524/ | url-status=live }}

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Anderson originally wanted the role of Eddie to be played by Leonardo DiCaprio, after seeing him in The Basketball Diaries. DiCaprio enjoyed the screenplay, but had to turn it down because he had signed on to star in James Cameron's Titanic. He recommended his Basketball Diaries co-star Mark Wahlberg for the role. DiCaprio would later say that he wished he had done both.{{cite web | url=https://www.gq.com/story/leonardo-dicaprio-revolutionary-road-kate-winslet | title=Leading Man: Leonardo DiCaprio | date=November 2008 | access-date=July 3, 2023 | archive-date=March 20, 2018 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180320060459/https://www.gq.com/story/leonardo-dicaprio-revolutionary-road-kate-winslet | url-status=live }} Joaquin Phoenix was also offered the role of Eddie, but he declined it due to concerns about playing a porn star. Phoenix later collaborated with Anderson on the films The Master and Inherent Vice.{{cite web | last=Brooks | first=Xan | title=Joaquin Phoenix set to star in Paul Thomas Anderson's Inherent Vice | url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/jan/25/joaquin-phoenix-paul-thomas-anderson | work=The Guardian | date=January 25, 2013 | access-date=November 28, 2016 | archive-date=March 5, 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305000955/http://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/jan/25/joaquin-phoenix-paul-thomas-anderson | url-status=live }} Bill Murray, Harvey Keitel, Warren Beatty, Albert Brooks and Sydney Pollack declined or were passed up on the role of Jack Horner, which went to Burt Reynolds.{{cite web | last=Zakarin | first=Jordan | title=5 Things We Just Learned About 'Boogie Nights' | url=https://www.yahoo.com/movies/5-things-we-just-learned-about-boogie-nights-104867842112.html | work=Yahoo! Movies | date=December 10, 2014 | access-date=November 28, 2016 | archive-date=March 5, 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305134030/https://www.yahoo.com/movies/5-things-we-just-learned-about-boogie-nights-104867842112.html | url-status=live }}{{cite web | url=https://grantland.com/features/boogie-nights/ | title=Livin' Thing | access-date=December 22, 2022 | archive-date=December 22, 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221222114220/https://grantland.com/features/boogie-nights/ | url-status=live }} After starring in Hard Eight, Samuel L. Jackson declined the role of Buck Swope, which went to Don Cheadle. Anderson initially did not consider Heather Graham for Rollergirl, because he had never seen her do nudity in a film. However, Graham's agent called Anderson asking if she could read for the part, which she won. Gwyneth Paltrow, Drew Barrymore and Tatum O'Neal were also up for the role.{{cite web | url=https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/gwyneth-paltrow-turned-down-blockbuster-movie-roles-talks-regrets-2015151/ | title=Gwyneth Paltrow Turned Down These Blockbusters -- Does She Regret It? | date=January 15, 2015 | access-date=December 22, 2022 | archive-date=December 22, 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221222114219/https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/gwyneth-paltrow-turned-down-blockbuster-movie-roles-talks-regrets-2015151/ | url-status=live }}

After having a very difficult time getting his previous film, Hard Eight, released, Anderson laid down a hard law when making Boogie Nights. He initially wanted the film to be over three hours long and be rated NC-17. The film's producers, particularly Michael De Luca, said that the film had to be either under three hours or rated R. Anderson fought with them, saying that the film would not have a mainstream appeal no matter what. They did not change their minds, and Anderson chose the R rating as a challenge. Despite this, the film was still 25 minutes shorter than promised.

Reynolds did not get along with Anderson while filming. After seeing a rough cut of the film, Reynolds allegedly fired his agent for recommending it.{{cite web | last=Brew | first=Simon | title=10 actors who turned against their own films | url=http://www.denofgeek.us/movies/15452/10-actors-who-turned-against-their-own-films | work=Den of Geek | date=March 1, 2010 | access-date=November 28, 2016 | archive-date=April 20, 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160420120430/http://www.denofgeek.us/movies/15452/10-actors-who-turned-against-their-own-films | url-status=live }}{{Better source needed|reason=Citation comes across as 2nd hand gossip. With barely enough information itself, it's written in a way where it's expecting to give the reader another source but fails to do so.|date=January 2020}} Despite this, Reynolds won a Golden Globe Award and was nominated for an Academy Award for his performance. Later, Anderson wanted Reynolds to star in his next film Magnolia, but Reynolds declined it.{{cite web | last=Jagernauth | first=Kevin | title="He Was Young And Full Of Himself": Burt Reynolds On Why He "Hated" Paul Thomas Anderson During 'Boogie Nights' | url=http://www.indiewire.com/2015/12/he-was-young-and-full-of-himself-burt-reynolds-on-why-he-hated-paul-thomas-anderson-during-boogie-nights-101670/ | work=Indiewire | publisher=Penske Business Media, LLC | date=December 3, 2015 | access-date=November 29, 2016 | archive-date=November 29, 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161129205856/http://www.indiewire.com/2015/12/he-was-young-and-full-of-himself-burt-reynolds-on-why-he-hated-paul-thomas-anderson-during-boogie-nights-101670/ | url-status=live }} In 2012, Reynolds denied rumors that he disliked the film, calling it "extraordinary" and saying that his opinion of it has nothing to do with his relationship with Anderson.{{Citation|last=Mandatory|title=Deliverance Interviews (Ronny Cox, Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds & Ned Beatty)|date=July 11, 2012|url=https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PnqGa3ffq4I| archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211103/PnqGa3ffq4I| archive-date=November 3, 2021 | url-status=live|access-date=March 1, 2018}}{{cbignore}} According to Wahlberg, Reynolds wanted his character Jack Horner to have an Irish accent, which he used for the character on his first day of shooting, before dropping it on the next day.{{cite web|last=Thrash|first=Steven|title=Mark Wahlberg Recalls Burt Reynolds' Blunt Behavior on Boogie Nights: 'Don't You Ever Laugh at Me Kid!'|date=March 17, 2024|website=MovieWeb|url=https://movieweb.com/mark-wahlberg-boogie-nights-burt-reynolds-shocking-first-meeting/|accessdate=April 4, 2024}}{{cite web|last=Bentz|first=Adam|title="Don't You Ever Laugh At Me, Kid": Mark Wahlberg & Burt Reynolds' First Boogie Nights Scene Went Very Awkwardly|date=March 15, 2024|website=Screen Rant|url=https://screenrant.com/boogie-nights-movie-mark-wahlberg-burt-reynolds-scene-first-story/|accessdate=April 5, 2024}}

According to Thomas Jane, who played Todd Parker in the film, the character Cosmo throwing firecrackers throughout the drug deal scene was not originally in the script, but was written for Anderson's friend Joe G. M. Chan, whom Anderson had seen randomly throwing firecrackers at a party before asking him to appear in the film. Jane also said that Reynolds had attempted to knee him in the crotch during filming due to Anderson keeping the camera rolling after the end of the take, with Jane taunting him as part of a prank. Reynolds sent a six pack of beer to Jane's trailer as an apology.{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Slx2icItg0 |title=Celebrity True or False: Thomas Jane Shares Some Great 'Boogie Nights' Stories {{!}} The Rich Eisen Show |date=2022-05-18 |last=The Rich Eisen Show |access-date=2024-12-28 |via=YouTube}}

The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and New York Film Festival, before opening on two screens in the United States on October 10, 1997. It grossed $50,168 during its opening weekend. Three weeks later, it expanded to 907 theaters and grossed $4.7 million, ranking number four for the week. It eventually earned $26.4 million in the United States and $16.7 million in foreign markets for a worldwide box office total of $43.1 million.{{cite web |url=http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=boogienights.htm |title=Box Office Mojo |publisher=IMDb |access-date=June 25, 2011 |archive-date=September 18, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120918020132/http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=boogienights.htm |url-status=live }}

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On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, Boogie Nights holds an approval rating of 94% based on 77 reviews, with an average score of 8.10/10. The site's critical consensus states, "Grounded in strong characters, bold themes, and subtle storytelling, Boogie Nights is a groundbreaking film both for director P.T. Anderson and star Mark Wahlberg."{{cite web |url=http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/boogie_nights |title=Boogie Nights |work=Rotten Tomatoes |publisher=Fandango |access-date=June 7, 2020 |archive-date=June 4, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200604184916/https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/boogie_nights |url-status=live }} On Metacritic, the film holds a weighted average score of 86 out of 100, based on 28 critics, indicating "universal acclaim".{{cite web |url=http://www.metacritic.com/movie/boogie-nights |title=Boogie Nights |work=Metacritic |publisher=CBS Interactive |access-date=July 1, 2010 |archive-date=October 5, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181005152428/https://www.metacritic.com/movie/boogie-nights |url-status=live }} Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "C" on an A+ to F scale.{{cite web |url= https://screencrush.com/movies-with-crazy-cinemascores/ |title= 25 Films With Completely Baffling CinemaScores |publisher= ScreenCrush |author= Matt Singer |date= August 13, 2015 |access-date= August 18, 2020 |archive-date= September 7, 2020 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20200907051200/https://screencrush.com/movies-with-crazy-cinemascores/ |url-status= live }}

Janet Maslin of The New York Times wrote, "Everything about Boogie Nights is interestingly unexpected," although "the film's extravagant 2-hour 32-minute length amounts to a slight tactical mistake ... [it] has no trouble holding interest ... but the length promises larger ideas than the film finally delivers." She praised Burt Reynolds for "his best and most suavely funny performance in many years," and added, "The movie's special gift happens to be Mark Wahlberg, who gives a terrifically appealing performance."{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/library/film/boogie-film-review.html |title=New York Times review |work=The New York Times |date=October 8, 1997 |access-date=June 25, 2011 |archive-date=October 19, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151019070023/http://www.nytimes.com/library/film/boogie-film-review.html |url-status=live }}

Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times observed: {{cquote|Few films have been more matter-of-fact, even disenchanted, about sexuality. Adult films are a business here, not a dalliance or a pastime, and one of the charms of Boogie Nights is the way it shows the everyday backstage humdrum life of porno filmmaking ... The sweep and variety of the characters have brought the movie comparisons to Robert Altman's Nashville and The Player. There is also some of the same appeal as Pulp Fiction in scenes that balance precariously between comedy and violence ... Through all the characters and all the action, Anderson's screenplay centers on the human qualities of the players ... Boogie Nights has the quality of many great films, in that it always seems alive.{{cite news |url=https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/boogie-nights-1997 |title=RogerEbert.com review |publisher=RogerEbert.com |access-date=April 14, 2020 |date=October 17, 1997 |archive-date=March 30, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200330172408/https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/boogie-nights-1997 |url-status=live }}}}

Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle stated, "Boogie Nights is the first great film about the 1970s to come out since the '70s ... It gets all the details right, nailing down the styles and the music. More impressive, it captures the decade's distinct, decadent glamour ... [It] also succeeds at something very difficult: re-creating the ethos and mentality of an era ... Paul Thomas Anderson ... has pulled off a wonderful, sprawling, sophisticated film ... With Boogie Nights, we know we're not just watching episodes from disparate lives but a panorama of recent social history, rendered in bold, exuberant colors."{{cite news |url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/1997/10/17/DD67372.DTL |title=San Francisco Chronicle review |publisher=SFGate.com |date=October 17, 1997 |access-date=June 25, 2011 |first=Mick |last=LaSalle |archive-date=December 28, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071228212745/http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=%2Fc%2Fa%2F1997%2F10%2F17%2FDD67372.DTL |url-status=live }}

Kenneth Turan of the Los Angeles Times called it "a startling film, but not for the obvious reasons. Yes, its decision to focus on the pornography business in the San Fernando Valley in the 1970s and 1980s is nerviness itself, but more impressive is the film's sureness of touch, its ability to be empathetic, nonjudgmental and gently satirical, to understand what is going on beneath the surface of this raunchy Nashville-esque universe and to deftly relate it to our own ... Perhaps the most exciting thing about Boogie Nights is the ease with which writer-director Anderson ... spins out this complex web. A true storyteller, able to easily mix and match moods in a playful and audacious manner, he is a filmmaker definitely worth watching, both now and in the future."{{cite web |last=Boucher |first=Geoff |url=http://www.calendarlive.com/movies/reviews/cl-movie971111-40,0,7782501.story |title=Los Angeles Times review |publisher=CalendarLive.com |access-date=June 25, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081201084209/http://www.calendarlive.com/movies/reviews/cl-movie971111-40%2C0%2C7782501.story |archive-date=December 1, 2008 }} In Time Out New York, Andrew Johnston concluded, "The porn milieu may scare some folks off, but Boogie Nights offers laughs, tenderness, terror and redemption--everything you could ask for in a movie. It's an impressive and satisfying film, one the Academy really ought to have the balls to recognize."{{Cite journal|last=Johnston|first=Andrew|date=October 2–16, 1997|title=Boogie Nights|journal=Time Out New York|pages=77}}

Peter Travers of Rolling Stone said, "[T]his chunk of movie dynamite is detonated by Mark Wahlberg ... who grabs a breakout role and runs with it ... Even when Boogie Nights flies off course as it tracks its bizarrely idealistic characters into the '80s ... you can sense the passionate commitment at the core of this hilarious and harrowing spectacle. For this, credit Paul Thomas Anderson ... who ... scores a personal triumph by finding glints of rude life in the ashes that remained after Watergate. For all the unbridled sex, what is significant, timely and, finally, hopeful about Boogie Nights is the way Anderson proves that a movie can be mercilessly honest and mercifully humane at the same time."[https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/reviews/boogie-nights-19971010 "Rolling Stone review"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110628203057/http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/reviews/boogie-nights-19971010 |date=June 28, 2011 }}. Rolling Stone. Retrieved February 6, 2014.

Gene Siskel of the Chicago Tribune called it "beautifully made" and praised the performances, calling Reynolds "absolutely centered and in control of his emotions" and saying Wahlberg "couldn't be better". However, he moderated his praise by saying, "The early rave reviews accorded this film suggest a significance that I, however, did not encounter. Show-biz stories are all pretty much the same: ambition, stardom, drugs, disillusionment. Add the home video revolution to this mix and curiosity about the size of the boy wonder's equipment; throw in a few topical references like the soft drink Fresca, and you have the bare bones of the story." He gave the film three and a half stars out of a possible four.{{cite web | last=Siskel | first=Gene | title='Boggie' Grooves to an Off Beat | website=chicagotribune.com | date=October 17, 1997 | url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1997-10-17-9710170183-story.html | access-date=December 29, 2020 | archive-date=August 9, 2020 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200809215220/https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1997-10-17-9710170183-story.html | url-status=live }}

Despite the accolades Wahlberg received for his performance in Boogie Nights, he would later express regret for having made the film. "I've made some poor choices in the past", he said, and stated he wanted God to forgive him for appearing in it.{{cite web |last1=Sharf |first1=Zack |title=Mark Wahlberg Wants God to Forgive Him for 'Boogie Nights': 'I've Made Some Poor Choices' |url=https://www.indiewire.com/features/general/mark-wahlberg-god-forgive-him-boogie-nights-1201890465/ |website=IndieWire |date=24 October 2017 |access-date=October 14, 2023 |archive-date=October 31, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231031163309/https://www.indiewire.com/features/general/mark-wahlberg-god-forgive-him-boogie-nights-1201890465/ |url-status=live }} Wahlberg later clarified his comments, saying he had made them because he "was sitting in front of a couple of thousand kids talking about and trying to encourage them to come back to their faith, and I was just saying that I just hope [God] has a sense of humor because I maybe made some decisions that may not be okay with Him."{{Cite web |last=Sharf |first=Zack |date=2017-11-06 |title=Mark Wahlberg Explains the Real Reason He Asked God to Forgive Him for 'Boogie Nights' |url=https://www.indiewire.com/features/general/mark-wahlberg-boogie-nights-explains-god-forgiveness-dirk-diggler-1201894672/ |access-date=2024-12-28 |website=IndieWire |language=en-US}} He also stated in an interview with Andy Cohen that his comment was "a joke taken too seriously".{{Cite web |title=Mark Wahlberg: Asking forgiveness for "Boogie Nights" was a joke taken seriously {{!}} Ghostarchive |url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/v0-_0gkYxvA |access-date=2024-12-28 |website=ghostarchive.org}}

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Two Boogie Nights soundtracks were released, the first at the time of the film's initial release and the second the following year. AllMusic rated the first soundtrack four and a half stars out of five[{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r313040|pure_url=yes}} Allmusic review] for the first soundtrack and the second soundtrack four.[{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r331973|pure_url=yes}} Allmusic review] for the second soundtrack

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| title1 = Intro (Feel the Heat)

| writer1 = Paul Thomas Anderson, John C. Reilly

| extra1 = Reilly, Mark Wahlberg

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| title2 = Best of My Love

| writer2 = Al McKay, Maurice White

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| title3 = Jungle Fever

| writer3 = Bill Ador

| extra3 = Chakachas

| length3 = 4:20

| title4 = Brand New Key

| writer4 = Melanie Safka

| extra4 = Melanie Safka

| length4 = 2:23

| title5 = Spill the Wine

| writer5 = Eric Burdon and War

| extra5 = Eric Burdon and War

| length5 = 4:02

| title6 = Got to Give It Up, Pt. 1

| writer6 = Marvin Gaye

| extra6 = Marvin Gaye

| length6 = 4:07

| title7 = Machine Gun

| writer7 = Milan Williams

| extra7 = Commodores

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| title8 = Magnet and Steel

| writer8 = Walter Egan

| extra8 = Walter Egan

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| title9 = Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now

| writer9 = Jerry Cohen, Gene McFadden, John Whitehead

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| title10 = Sister Christian

| writer10 = Kelly Keagy

| extra10 = Night Ranger

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| title11 = Livin' Thing

| writer11 = Jeff Lynne

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| length11 = 3:30

| title12 = God Only Knows

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| title3 = You Sexy Thing

| writer3 = Errol Brown, Tony Wilson

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| title4 = Boogie Shoes

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| title5 = Do Your Thing

| writer5 = Charles Wright

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| writer6 = Paul Roberts

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| extra7 = The Move

| length7 = 9:30

| title8 = Jessie's Girl

| writer8 = Rick Springfield

| extra8 = Rick Springfield

| length8 = 3:13

| title9 = J.P. Walk

| writer9 = Anton Scott

| extra9 = Sound Experience

| length9 = 7:05

| title10 = I Want to Be Free

| writer10 = Marshall "Rock" Jones, Ralph "Pee Wee" Middlebrooks, James "Diamond" Williams

| extra10 = Ohio Players

| length10 = 6:50

| title11 = Joy

| writer11 = Johann Sebastian Bach

| extra11 = Apollo 100

| length11 = 2:44

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;Personnel

• Paul Thomas Anderson – executive producer
• Karyn Rachtman – executive producer, music supervisor
• Liz Heller – executive producer{{Cite web |url=http://www.discogs.com/release/484612 |title=Discogs – Liz Heller credit Boogie Nights #2 1997 Capitol Records (CDP 7243 4 93076 2 9) US |website=Discogs |year=1998 |access-date=December 1, 2016 |archive-date=December 2, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161202121851/https://www.discogs.com/release/484612 |url-status=live }}
• Bobby Lavelle – music supervisor
• Carol Dunn – music coordinator

• "Sunny" by Boney M.
• "Susan (The Sage)" by Chico Hamilton Quintet
• "Fly, Robin, Fly" by Silver Convention
• "Afternoon Delight" by Starland Vocal Band
• "Lonely Boy" by Andrew Gold
• "Fat Man" by Jethro Tull
• "Flying Objects" by Roger Webb
• "Queen of Hearts" by Juice Newton
• "It's Just a Matter of Time" by Brook Benton
• "Compared to What" by Roberta Flack
• "99 Luftballons" by Nena
• "Voices Carry" by 'Til Tuesday

• The Pornographer
• Wonderland
• Lovelace
• Making Venus, a 2002 Australian documentary film about two filmmakers who grapple with having coincidentally made a film similar to Boogie Nights
• List of films featuring fictional films
• American Eccentric Cinema

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• [http://www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/tt/tt971031paul_thomas_anderson Paul Thomas Anderson radio interview]
• [http://grantland.com/features/boogie-nights/ "Livin' Thing: An Oral History of Boogie Nights"], Grantland, December 2014

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