DIRECTOR
Paul Thomas Anderson
FORMAT
70MM
RUNTIME
2h 35m
RATING
R
CAST
Mark Wahlberg, Julianna Moore, Burt Reynolds
SYNOPSIS
During disco’s 1970s heyday, 17-year-old busboy Eddie Adams is looking for a break when he is spotted by veteran porn director Jack Horner. Horner rechristens Eddie ‘Dirk Diggler’ and makes him a star of adult cinema. Enjoying his new-found fame and a hedonistic lifestyle to match, Eddie is little prepared for the changes in the porn industry that are to come with the arrival of the 1980s and the rise of video tape.
CAST
Mark Wahlberg, Julianna Moore, Burt Reynolds
SYNOPSIS
During disco’s 1970s heyday, 17-year-old busboy Eddie Adams is looking for a break when he is spotted by veteran porn director Jack Horner. Horner rechristens Eddie ‘Dirk Diggler’ and makes him a star of adult cinema. Enjoying his new-found fame and a hedonistic lifestyle to match, Eddie is little prepared for the changes in the porn industry that are to come with the arrival of the 1980s and the rise of video tape.
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