Official Movie Website Theatrical Release 12/26/07 ( LA&NY) 01/18/08 (St. Louis) Home Video 04/08/08 MPAA Rating Rated R for some violence Running Time 2 hours 30 minutes Genre Drama Director Paul Thomas Anderson Writer Paul Thomas Anderson Cast Daniel Day Lewis Paul Dano Ciaran Hinds Kevin J. O'Connor Dillon Freasier Studio Paramount Vantage |
THERE WILL BE BLOOD (2007)
SYNOPSIS
A sprawling epic of family, faith, power and oil,
There Will Be Blood is set on the incendiary
frontier of California’s turn-of-the-century
petroleum boom. The story chronicles the life and
times of one Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day-Lewis),
who transforms himself from a down-and-out
silver miner raising a son on his own into a self-
made oil tycoon. When Plainview gets a
mysterious tip-off that there’s a little town out
West where an ocean of oil is oozing out of the
ground, he heads with his son, H.W. (Dillon
Freasier), to take their chances in dust-worn Little
Boston. In this hardscrabble town, where the main
excitement centers around the holy roller church
of charismatic preacher Eli Sunday (Paul Dano),
Plainview and H.W. make their lucky strike. But
even as the well raises all of their fortunes, nothing
will remain the same as conflicts escalate and
every human value – love, hope, community, belief,
ambition and even the bond between father and
son – is imperiled by corruption, deception and the
flow of oil.
-- ©Paramount Vantage
A sprawling epic of family, faith, power and oil,
There Will Be Blood is set on the incendiary
frontier of California’s turn-of-the-century
petroleum boom. The story chronicles the life and
times of one Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day-Lewis),
who transforms himself from a down-and-out
silver miner raising a son on his own into a self-
made oil tycoon. When Plainview gets a
mysterious tip-off that there’s a little town out
West where an ocean of oil is oozing out of the
ground, he heads with his son, H.W. (Dillon
Freasier), to take their chances in dust-worn Little
Boston. In this hardscrabble town, where the main
excitement centers around the holy roller church
of charismatic preacher Eli Sunday (Paul Dano),
Plainview and H.W. make their lucky strike. But
even as the well raises all of their fortunes, nothing
will remain the same as conflicts escalate and
every human value – love, hope, community, belief,
ambition and even the bond between father and
son – is imperiled by corruption, deception and the
flow of oil.
-- ©Paramount Vantage
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