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Year of U.S. Release: 2007
Starring: Daniel Day-Lewis, Paul Dano, Kevin J. O'Connor, Ciarán Hinds, Russell Harvard.
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson Screenwriter(s): Paul Thomas Anderson Producer(s): Paul Thomas Anderson, Joanne Sellar Ex. Producer(s): Eric Schlosser, Scott Rudin Distributor: Paramount Vantage
Prod. Company: Scott Rudin Productions, Ghoulardi Film
Genre(s): Drama, Historical U.S. Release Date: December 26, 2007 (Limited)
U.S. DVD Release Date: April 08, 2008
U.S. Box Office Total:
Rated for some violence.
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Daniel Day-Lewis in an epic tale of family, faith, power and oil set on the frontier of California's turn-of-the-century petroleum boom.
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Plot Summary: | | |
Set in the booming West coast oil fields at the turn of the 20th century, a tale that follows the rise of rugged prospector Daniel Plainview who becomes an independent oilman after hitting it rich with the strike of a lifetime. He realizes the American dream, and is destroyed by it.
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A period drama loosely based on the 1927 Upton Sinclair novel "Oil!". |
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