In 1997, Burt Reynolds broke out his big hair and mustache to play porn filmmaker Jack Horner, an auteur who’s resistant to change in an industry in flux. By the mid-1990s, Reynolds’s own career was in flux too, after his widely panned 1996 film Striptease bombed at the domestic box office and his finances had taken a turn for the worst amid a messy divorce. In 1997, Reynolds’s fortunes changed: Boogie Nights scored the star an Oscar nomination—and a brand-new future in Hollywood.