Films at PhxArt: Boogie Nights
March 11, 2026 | 6:00pm
Presented in Whiteman Hall
TICKETS: FREE for Members | $8 for non-Members
In the San Fernando Valley in 1977, teenage busboy Eddie Adams (Mark Wahlberg) gets discovered by porn director Jack Horner (Burt Reynolds), who transforms him into adult-film sensation Dirk Diggler. Brought into a supportive circle of friends, including fellow actors Amber Waves (Julianne Moore), Rollergirl (Heather Graham) and Reed Rothchild (John C. Reilly), Dirk fulfills all his ambitions, but a toxic combination of drugs and egotism threatens to take him back down.
"A genuine American epic." — The New York Times
"A funny, deeply moving, and often astonishing movie." — Rolling Stone
"The last great movie of the 20th century." — The Chicago Tribune
"An exhilarating, sprawling, tragicomic, beautifully controlled vision of the world." — Variety
"A powerful and moving story of a family, however fractured, built on the shifting sands of Hollywood dreams." — Roger Ebert
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