The Top 100 Project

We haven't covered a Paul Thomas Anderson movie in over 6 years, so it's high time we found out what's up in his funny opus about a makeshift family doing drugs and shooting porn. Burt Reynolds is fantastic and he's so likable in Boogie Nights, but it was Mark Wahlberg who said to Hollywood "hello, I'm a big, bright shining star" after this ode to the '70s burst onto the scene. The entire cast is marvelous and almost all of them (Moore, Cheadle, Reilly, Walters, Hoffman, Graham, etc) play their characters like innocent children. Everything is changing around them, although they themselves don't really change. Yes, it's yet another film about a glorious rise and a brutal fall, but PTA's script and direction find ways to make the story fun (for a while anyway) as he classily films this seedy subject. So don't be a certain kind of idiot (an idiot, an idiot, an idiot...) as the 459th Ellises' Analysis peels back many layers of the one about a delusional family that just happens to make adult films. You can probab