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Sep 21, 2012 · The Master: Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. With Joaquin Phoenix, Price Carson, Mike Howard, Sarah Shoshana David. A Naval veteran arrives home from war unsettled and uncertain of his future - until he is tantalized by the Cause and its charismatic leader.
Sep 19, 2012 · Quell drifts in and out of reality, imagining rooms where the women have suddenly become unclothed. When it comes to sex, he has a powerful imagination, which we observe in an early scene where shipmates make a sand sculpture of a naked woman, and he uses it like a love doll to masturbate. (Not recommended.)
Smart and solidly engrossing, The Master extends Paul Thomas Anderson's winning streak of challenging films for serious audiences. Read Critics Reviews
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Alcoholic Freddie Quell (Joaquin Phoenix) is a World War II veteran suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder and struggling to adjust to a post-war society. He finds a job as a photographer at a local department store taking family portraits, but is eventually fired for assaulting a customer after drunkenly harassing him.
Sep 14, 2012 · 01:39. Summary In the years after WWII, an American intellectual creates a religion. When he meets a troubled drifter, he invites the man to help him spread the new faith. As their congregation increases, the drifter begins to question the religion he once accepted and the mentor who gave his life direction. Drama.
A troubled World War II veteran falls in with the charismatic leader of a controversial religious cult in this pensive character study. Rentals include 30 days to start watching this video and 48 hours to finish once started.
Paul Thomas Anderson’s monumental portrait of a traumatized postwar America features two staggering performances: from Joaquin Phoenix—as Freddie Quell, a hard-drinking Navy veteran prone to violence—and Philip Seymour Hoffman as Lancaster Dodd, the charismatic leader of a new cult-like religion known as the Cause.
