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(Paul Thomas Anderson, US 1997, 155 min.)
Penetrating the mood of the disco era, P. T. Anderson’s breakout film follows Dirk Diggler (Mark Wahlberg) from his days as a petulant young dishwasher to an intrepid porn superstar in California’s San Fernando Valley in the 1970s, to his fall to rock bottom in the 1980s. Philip Seymour Hoffman is heartbreaking as the conflicted homosexual boom operator Scotty J., secretly in love with Dirk but confused about how to express himself. Hoffman’s biggest film since , here he is in the company of some of the greats of our time: Don Cheadle, William H. Macy, Julianne Moore, John C. Reilly, and Burt Reynolds.
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(Paul Thomas Anderson, US 1997, 155 min.)
Penetrating the mood of the disco era, P. T. Anderson’s breakout film follows Dirk Diggler (Mark Wahlberg) from his days as a petulant young dishwasher to an intrepid porn superstar in California’s San Fernando Valley in the 1970s, to his fall to rock bottom in the 1980s. Philip Seymour Hoffman is heartbreaking as the conflicted homosexual boom operator Scotty J., secretly in love with Dirk but confused about how to express himself. Hoffman’s biggest film since , here he is in the company of some of the greats of our time: Don Cheadle, William H. Macy, Julianne Moore, John C. Reilly, and Burt Reynolds.
This video has been made possible in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities: NEH CARES.
Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this video, do not necessarily represent those of the NEH.
