Boogie Nights at the Pavilions

There is nothing more entertaining than a coked up PTA, join me for this wild ride?

Paul Thomas Anderson‘s “Boogie Nights” is an epic of the low road, a classic Hollywood story set in the shadows instead of the spotlights but containing the same ingredients: Fame, envy, greed, talent, sex, money. The movie follows a large, colorful and curiously touching cast of characters as they live through a crucial turning point in the adult film industry.
In 1977, when the story opens, porn movies are shot on film and play in theaters, and a director can dream of making one so good that the audience members would want to stay in the theater even after they had achieved what they came for. By 1983, when the story closes, porn has shifted to video and most of the movies are basically just gynecological loops. There is hope, at the outset, that a porno movie could be “artistic,” and less hope at the end.
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 (a brilliant scene near the end has Dirk and friends selling cocaine to a deranged playboy while the customer’s friend throws firecrackers around the room). Through all the characters and all the action, Anderson’s screenplay centers on the human qualities of the players. They may live in a disreputable world, but they have the same ambitions and in a weird way similar values as mainstream Hollywood. Roger Ebert/****)

Tickets available online and at the box office
https://www.regmovies.com/movies/mom2-boogie-nights-ho00022314?date=09-26-2026&utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=gmb-listing&site=1315&id=271045

4 hours of parking free with validation.

We will head to local venue after to celebrate and discuss the film