History YMMV / BoogieNights

* TheWoobie: Scotty J.

** A key subplot of the film is Amber's difficulties in acting as a mother to her daughter due to her profession and her lifestyle. Her next major project was ''Film/TheBigLebowski'', a film in which she plays an artist with a very tense relationship with her much-younger stepmother, due to her profession... as a porn star. And for bonus points, after the numerous scenes in this film lampooning the general poor quality of acting and direction in pornography while the characters take it completely seriously, the later film includes a scene where she plays the Dude a snippet of her mother's work and thoroughly dismisses it ("The story's ''ludicrous''.")

** A key subplot of the film is Amber's difficulties in acting as a mother to her daughter due to her profession and her lifestyle. Her next major project was ''Film/TheBigLebowski'', a film in which she plays an artist with a very tense relationship with her much-younger stepmother, due to her profession... as a porn star. And for bonus points, after the numerous scenes lampooning the general poor quality of acting and direction in pornography, the later film includes a scene where she plays the Dude a snippet of her mother's work and thoroughly dismisses it ("The story's ''ludicrous''.")

** A key subplot of the film is Amber's difficulties in acting as a mother to her daughter due to her profession and her lifestyle. Her next project was ''Film/TheBigLebowski'', a film in which she plays an artist with a very tense relationship with her much-younger stepmother, due to her profession... as a porn star. And for bonus points, after the numerous scenes lampooning the general poor quality of acting and direction in pornography, the later film includes a scene where she plays the Dude a snippet of her mother's work and thoroughly dismisses it ("The story's ''ludicrous''.")

** A key subplot of the film is Amber's difficulties in acting as a mother to her daughter due to her profession and her lifestyle. Her next project was ''Film/TheBigLebowski'', a film in which she plays an artist with a very tense relationship with her much-younger stepmother, due to her profession... as a porn star. And for bonus points, after the numerous scenes lampooning the general poor quality of acting and direction in pornography, the later film includes a scene where she plays the Dude a snippet of her mother's work and thoroughly ridicules it ("The story's ''ludicrous''.")

* ValuesResonance: One of the major themes of the movie, how the rise of videotape changed the industry from something where creators could at least try to [[PornWithPlot tell a story]] along with the sex, to where you just cranked out product quickly and cheaply, is similar in many ways to how the internet changed the way the business worked. The rise of sites with lots of free videos, many of them just uploaded personal sex tapes, further reduced the ability of performers to make a living as they try to compete with an ocean of free clips.

** The song[[note]]''The Touch'', by Stan Bush. Famous for being used in the original WesternAnimation/TheTransformersTheMovie[[/note]] performed by Creator/MarkWahlberg, now that he's [[Film/TransformersAgeOfExtinction the human lead in a Transformers film]].

* AwardSnub: The film went relatively unnoticed outside of commendations for Creator/BurtReynolds (ironic, given how much Burt disliked working on the film), Creator/JulianneMoore, and the Screenplay. Many now cite Moore's loss for Best Supporting Actress as an unfortunate UsefulNotes/AcademyAwards decision. Perhaps even more mind-boggling is the film not getting nominations for Best Picture, Director, Actor, Cinematography or Editing.