"Boogie Nights": Hardcore Details Quiz

Answer: Joanna Gleason

Eddie Adams'(Mark Wahlberg) mother considers her son to be a complete loser. He leaves his parents' house after she berates him for coming home late. He later finds a mother figure in Amber Waves (Julianne Moore).

Answer: Jessie St. Vincent

Jessie is one of the more minor characters in the movie. According to certain people, she is not attractive enough for porn. She does several oil paintings of Dirk, and gives birth to Buck Swope's (Don Cheadle) son. We never find out if they're actually married.

Answer: Robert Downey Sr.

Robert Downey Sr. has a cameo as a recording executive when Dirk tries to break into the music industry. He is credited as "a prince" in several movies, including P.T. Anderson's "Magnolia". He is refered to as "a prince" because he is one of Anderson's idols.

Answer: False

Like Dirk Diggler, Rollergirl (Heather Graham) is a runaway - a high school dropout, and she also considers Amber to be her mother. Amber's only real child is named Andrew, and she isn't allowed to see him because her ex-husband considers her lifestyle to be inappropriate.

Answer: 7

The movie shows what happens to the characters from 1977-1984. When we first meet Dirk Diggler, aka Eddie Adams, he is 17.

Answer: None

Anderson does not appear in any of his own movies. His other movies include "Hard Eight", "Magnolia", and "Punch-Drunk Love".

Answer: January 1, 1980

Little Bill (William H. Macy) kills his wife and her lover after he catches her cheating on him for the umpteenth time. He kills them at a New Year's party in 1979 just as the New Year's countdown ends. In the first few seconds of the new decade, he blows his brains out. Bill's wife is played by Nina Hartley, just one of the many porn stars who have cameos throughout the movie.

Answer: Juliette Lewis

Jackson turned down the part of Buck Swope, Paltrow passed on playing the character of Rollergirl, and Warren Beatty was uninterested in the role of Jack Horner. Leonardo DiCaprio was originally wanted by Anderson, to play Dirk Diggler, but he decided to do "Titanic" instead. The studio also wanted Patricia Arquette to play Amber Waves, but Julianne Moore wound up with the part.

Answer: Magician

Dirk and Reed (John C. Reilly) nearly get killed, and Todd Parker (Thomas Jane) does die, after a drug deal gone awry. Dirk and Reed part ways, and Reed begans his career as a magician. He is with the old gang later, though.

Answer: False

Somewhere in the middle of the movie, Amber makes a documentary about Dirk and his best-known character, Brock Landers. At the end, she also directs a commercial for Buck's stereo store. Jack (Burt Reynolds) is the one who discovers Dirk, directs him in movies, and helps him out of trouble in the end. He also throws huge parties and always has an extra room for one of his actors.