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Name: Magnolia
Released: 1999-12-17
Cast: Tom Cruise, Julianne Moore, Jason Robards, William H. Macy, John C. Reilly

Magnolia

R
3h 8m
1999

82%

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This sprawling character study follows 10 people whose damaged lives intersect--often by sheer coincidence--during a single day in Southern California's San Fernando Valley.

Director:

Paul Thomas Anderson

Producer:

Joanne Sellar, Paul Thomas Anderson, Michael De Luca, Lynn Harris

Writer:

Paul Thomas Anderson

Cast:

Tom Cruise, Julianne Moore, Jason Robards, William H. Macy, John C. Reilly, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Melora Walters, Philip Baker Hall, Melinda Dillon

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

82%

Critics Consensus: An eruption of feeling that's as overwhelming as it is overwrought, Paul Thomas Anderson's Magnolia reaches a fevered crescendo and sustains it thanks to its fearlessly committed ensemble.

Reviews

Chicago Sun-Times

Roger Ebert

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.

July 15, 2023

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Denver Rocky Mountain News

Robert Denerstein

Anderson has dared to make a movie that refuses to conceal its excesses, an amazing abundance of strong emotion, technical verve and pure performance power.

While not as fully realized as Anderson's last movie, Boogie Nights, Magnolia is filmed with the same skillful abandon, and takes many more artistic risks... The result is a movie as fascinating for its flaws as for its considerable successes.

It's a film of power, substance and superlative performances that challenges audiences. Hopefully, audiences will be up to taking that challenge.

Magnolia, Paul Thomas Anderson's frenzied follow-up to Boogie Nights, can be as intoxicating as the flower it's named for, and its characters, most of them as flawed and fascinating as the film itself, seem intoxicated by the overpowering scent.

July 15, 2023

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