Boogie Nights is a American drama film written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. Set in Southern California in the late 1970s and early 1980s, during the Golden Age of Porn, the screenplay focuses on a young nightclub dishwasher who becomes the popular star of pornographic films and finds himself slowly descending into a nightmare of drug abuse when his fame draws him into a crowd of users and abusers.

Although fictional, the film is based on a number of real porn actors and films from porn's "golden age" of the 1970s and early 1980s, and it features several cameos by real porn stars of the era.Nina Hartley plays "Little Bill's" wife and Sarah Jane Hamilton plays the custody hearing judge The character of Dirk Diggler is based on John Holmes.