There Will Be Blood

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There Will Be Blood
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R,2hrs 38min
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Released:
December 26, 2007
Distributor:
Paramount Vantage
Synopsis: Writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson steps outside his contemporary world of dysfunctional Angelenos to explore a very different dysfunctional man -- an oil pioneer whose trailblazing spirit is equaled only by his murderous ambition. There Will Be Blood is Anderson's loose adaptation of the novel Oil! by Upton Sinclair, and it focuses its attentions on Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day-Lewis), a miner who happens upon black gold during a disastrous excavation that ends in a broken leg. Pulling himself ... Full Synopsis
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The film is above all a consummate work of art, one that transcends the historically fraught context of its making, and its pleasures are unapologetically aesthetic. It reveals, excites, disturbs, provokes, but the window it opens is to human consciousness itself. Full Review
Metascore
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92
Universal Acclaim
out of 100
Featured Cast
Daniel Plainview
Eli Sunday
H.W., H.W. Plainview
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Daniel Day-Lewis in "There Will Be Blood" (Paramount Vantage Films)
An early 20th century oil rig goes up in Texas in "There Will Be Blood" (Paramount Vantage Films)
Dillion Freasier, left, and Daniel Day-Lewis in "There Will Be Blood" (Paramount Vantage Films)
Paul Dano, left, and Daniel Day-Lewis in "There Will Be Blood" (Paramount Vantage Films)
An oil rig burns in "There Will Be Blood" (Paramount Vantage Films)
Paul Dano in "There Will Be Blood" (Paramount Vantage Films)
Daniel Day-Lewis in "There Will Be Blood" (Paramount Vantage Films)
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