Paul Thomas Anderson's epic fable of the war between the base and the spiritual, loosely derived from Upton Sinclair's 1927
Oil!, is ambitious, deeply flawed and studded with sequences that achieve pure, majestic greatness.
California, 1898: Alone in the vast, unforgiving desert and to the keening of Jonny Greenwood's horror-movie score, prospector Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day-Lewis) works his hand-dug mine by day and sleeps in a small tent that barely provides shelter from the harsh nights. When an accident shatters one leg immediately after he finally finds silver, Plainview hauls himself to the nearest town, inch by torturous inch, to stake his cl...
Released:
2007
Rated:
R
Length:
158 mins