His sophomore feature Boogie Nights (1997), about the adult film industry in the late 1970s (partially inspired by the life
of porno star John Holmes) is a surprisingly vibrant, funny, and at times quite warm story
of a
dysfunctional filmmaking
family, with Burt Reynolds as a quiet but firm director
Dad and Julianne Moore as the porn star surrogate mother to the company's teen stars Rollergirl (Heather Graham) and Dirk Diggler (Mark Wahlberg), the «natural» from the suburbs who is quickly recruited.
I do this by reviving emotional connection and getting to the root causes
of dysfunctional patterns, such as early
family dynamics and the thousands
of interactions with mom and
dad which became your earliest «love language.»