Boogie Nights is an excellent period piece of the late 70s and early 80s porn industry, but is really just a fable about the dangers of egotism and self-indulgence. We watch Eddie transform from a simple good-hearted busboy to the biggest star of the adult cinema industry, with all the money, women and drugs that come with that fame. The movie ends with the predictable moral that taking yourself too seriously leads to failure, as we watch all of the actor-characters sink into their own personal hells, as they mistake their fame and money for personal talent and success, only to realize too late that they're being consumed by the business that feeds their instant gratification. Burt Reynolds is excellent as the father figure director who is the center of the group of porn actors he recruits. Bill Macy turns in his usual great performance in a small role as the cinematographer whose wife (played by Nina Hartley, as an inside joke to all the porn fans in the audience!) can't stop having very public sex with other men, every chance she gets.