Looking Back
Hollywood’s Hottest Movie Comebacks
We're calling out some of the best movie comeback roles in a town where there's always a second act. By Anna Dimond
Burt Reynolds as Jack Horner in Boogie Nights, 1997
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.
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