There Will be BloodOverview and Synopsis
- There Will be Blood
- Opened December 26, 2007 | Runtime:2 hr. 38 min.
R
some violence
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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.Read More
- Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Paul Dano, Kevin J. O'Connor, Ciarán Hinds, Dillon Freasier
- Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
- Genres: Period Film, Drama, Family Drama
Critic Reviews
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"...a distinctly timely and modern tale, albeit one with problematic aspects..."
Los Angeles Times
- Kenneth Turan
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"Anderson's latest film is a near-masterpiece that is both exhilarating and disturbing."
USA Today
- Claudia Puig
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"...an intense, increasingly insidious character study of a turn-of-the-century central California oil man."
Variety
- Todd McCarthy
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