Word: rollergirl
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...relationship advice. Unlike her character, Graham has picked up a few nuggets after dating actors like Ed Burns and Heath Ledger. "If he says, 'I'm not emotionally available right now,'" says the Boogie Nights star, "listen." Somehow we think men are a bit more available when you're Rollergirl...
HEATHER ("ROLLERGIRL") GRAHAM...
...brood of porn stars and crew with the patriarchal dedication of Ward Cleaver. By the close of the movie, all the chicks have come back to the nest. In the closing sequence, we watch Jack survey his abode, pausing to assure his wife, Amber Waves, and to chastise Rollergirl, the not-quite-angelic daughter-figure, for her unclean room. He proceeds outside to the pool where the aunts and uncles, more professional fornicators, frolic with a newborn baby. In America, wherever there's love, even if its not purely filial, there's family...
Burt Reynolds plays the patriarch, Jack Horner, an idealist porn director convinced that his films are art. With his wife Amber Waves (Julianne Moore), Jack serves as a surrogate parent to his actors: Eddie, whom he finds working as a runner in a disco; Rollergirl (Heather Graham), named for the rollerskates that never leave her feet, even when the rest of her clothing do; and Reed Rothschild (John C. Reilly), Eddie's boyish sidekick. This family, which includes a few other "stars" and crew members like Little Bill (William H. Macy) and Buck Swope (Don Cheadle), proves surprisingly endearing...
...mind making the most intimate act of their lives a spectator sport. They see no reason to explain this, and neither does this defiantly noncommittal film. At the start, for example, Eddie is already exhibiting himself for money. We don't learn why he and Amber and Rollergirl descended into the netherworld of sexual showmanship; they have dwelt in that Valley from the start...