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Magnolia is a 1999 American epic drama film written, directed and co-produced by Paul Thomas Anderson. It stars an ensemble cast, including Jeremy Blackman, Tom Cruise, Melinda Dillon, Philip Baker Hall, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ricky Jay, William H. Macy, Alfred Molina, Julianne Moore, Michael Murphy, John C. Reilly, Jason Robards ...
Magnolia: Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. With Pat Healy, Genevieve Zweig, Mark Flanagan, Neil Flynn. An epic mosaic of interrelated characters in search of love, forgiveness and meaning in the San Fernando Valley.
Nov 27, 2008 · “Magnolia” is a film of sadness and loss, of lifelong bitterness, of children harmed and adults destroying themselves. As the narrator tells us near the end, “We may be through with the past, but the past is never through with us.”
On one random day in the San Fernando Valley, a dying father, a young wife, a male caretaker, a famous lost son, a police officer in love, a boy genius, an ex-boy genius, a game show host and...
Summaries. An epic mosaic of interrelated characters in search of love, forgiveness and meaning in the San Fernando Valley. 24 hours in L.A.; it's raining cats and dogs. Two parallel and intercut stories dramatize men about to die: both are estranged from a grown child, both want to make contact, and neither child wants anything to do with dad.
Jan 7, 2000 · “Magnolia” is operatic in its ambition, a great, joyous leap into melodrama and coincidence, with ragged emotions, crimes and punishments, deathbed scenes, romantic dreams, generational turmoil and celestial intervention, all scored to insistent music.
Aug 18, 2022 · Paul Thomas Anderson wastes no time setting up this theme in Magnolia. The film starts with three stories about massive coincidence. In the first coincidence, three men named Joseph Green, Stanley Berry, and Daniel Hill take the life of a man who happens to be from…Greenberry Hill, London.
Jul 30, 2021 · ‘Magnolia’ has one of the most unique, highly debated, and somewhat abrupt endings of all time. After all characters arrive at the concluding chapter of their respective stories, the sky opens up, and frogs start falling. That scene is very Biblical, and Anderson leaves clues about it scattered throughout the film.
Jul 30, 2021 · Is Magnolia Based on a True Story? No, ‘Magnolia’ is not based on a true story. Anderson wrote the original screenplay himself. However, he reportedly did incorporate stories that he heard from others into the script.
Jul 29, 2023 · Magnolia covers a day in the lives of several individuals living in the San Fernando Valley, each broken in their own little ways, each looking for love or forgiveness, each connected to the other in unexpected ways, and each haunted by the ghosts of their past.
