1. Julianne Moore as “Amber Waves”, sitting across from her husband, with a lawyer and a judge present, fighting for visitation/partial custody of her son in Boogie Nights.
2. Gena Rowlands as “Sarah Lawson”, sitting across from her husband, with a lawyer and a judge present, fighting for visitation rights/partial custody of her daughter in Love Streams.
Methinks Paul Thomas Anderson knows his Love Streams.
Clearly, the half-blue wall behind almost identical scenes only reads as a “nod” to those who have seen Love Streams, and that’s a pretty small number, but that’s the best kind of nod.
