Paul Thomas Anderson

Paul Thomas Anderson’s feature debut. Philip Baker Hall plays a professional gambler who takes a young man played by John C. Reilly under his wing. As the story unfolds, we meet a casino waitress played by Gwyneth Paltrow and a hustling security guard played by Samuel Jackson.

Boogie Nights is a tour de force.

In turn-of-the-century California, an oil prospector (Daniel Day-Lewis) rises to prominence.