There Will Be Blood (2007) - Overview - MSN Movies

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There Will Be Blood
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R,2hrs 38min
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December 26, 2007
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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 failed silver miner who happens upon black gold during a disastrous excavation that ends in a broken leg. Pulling ... Full Synopsis
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Todd McCarthy, Variety.com
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"Boldly and magnificently strange ... an intense, increasingly insidious character study of a turn-of-the-century central California oil man." Full Review
Perry Seibert
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Ambition is good. Ambition spurs people on to achieve more and more, to find new ways of doing things, to refine and perfect practices that have been in effect for a long time, or to blaze a new trail ... Full Review
Featured Cast
Daniel Plainview
Eli Sunday
H.W., H.W. Plainview
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