Boogie Nights vs Burt

Burt has the higher audience score (10/10 against 7.6/10 for Boogie Nights). Burt is the shorter watch at 1h 18m compared with 2h 36m. Boogie Nights is the older of the two (1997 against 2025). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Boogie Nights posterBoogie Nights1997 VS Burt posterBurt2025
Boogie NightsBurt
Audience score★ 7.6/10★ 10.0/10
Year19972025
Length2h 36m1h 18m
GenresDramaComedy, Drama
Country––
DirectorPaul Thomas AndersonJoe Burke
Main castDon Cheadle, William H. Macy, Nicole Ari Parker, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Alfred MolinaOliver Cooper, Olivia Luccardi, Brenda Vaccaro, John Karna, Louis Lombardi

Synopsis

Boogie Nights

Set in 1977, back when sex was safe, pleasure was a business and business was booming, idealistic porn producer Jack Horner aspires to elevate his craft to an art form. Horner discovers Eddie Adams, a hot young talent working as a busboy in a nightclub, and welcomes him into the extended family of movie-makers, misfits and hangers-on that are always around. Adams' rise from nobody to a celebrity adult entertainer is meteoric, and soon the whole…

Burt

Burt, a 69-year-old musician with Parkinson’s, has his life turned upside down when a man from New York shows up claiming to be his son. Having always dreamed of being a father, Burt embraces Sammy and invites him to stay for the weekend, where he lives with his grumpy landlord.

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