The 1992 erotic thriller Basic Instinct (written by Joe Eszterhas) revolves around the police investigation of the murder—by ice-pick—of retired rock star Johnny Boz. During the course of the investigation, Detective Nick Curran (Michael Douglas) becomes intimately involved with the prime suspect, … Continued

The 1997 film Boogie Nights, written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, follows high school dropout Eddie Adams (Mark Wahlberg), who uses his one remarkable characteristic—his ample endowment—to transform into Dirk Diggler, the biggest porn star of the 1970s. In … Continued