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Writer/director Paul Thomas Anderson was only a kid when the 1970s came to an end, yet he perfectly captures that time when 1960s’ idealism had turned into decadence and was about to become disaster. Anderson’s modern epic of pornographers with delusions of talent provides us with several heart-wrenching stories, from Mark Wahlberg’s nice, well-endowed, but not-too-bright young man to Julianne Moore’s Oscar-winning turn as a porn queen/mother hen. The excellent cast also includes Heather Graham, Don Cheadle, William H. Macy, and Philip Seymour Hoffman.