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The Master: Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. With Joaquin Phoenix, Price Carson, Mike Howard, Sarah Shoshana David. A Naval veteran arrives home from war unsettled and uncertain of his future - until he is tantalized by a Satanic cult and its charismatic leader.
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- Drama, History
- Paul Thomas Anderson
- 2012-09-21
The Master is a 2012 American psychological drama film written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson and starring Joaquin Phoenix, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Amy Adams. It tells the story of Freddie Quell (Phoenix), a World War II Navy veteran struggling to adjust to a post-war society, who meets Lancaster Dodd (Hoffman), the leader of a cult ...
Roger Ebert. September 19, 2012. 5 min read. Paul Thomas Anderson ‘s “The Master” is fabulously well-acted and crafted, but when I reach for it, my hand closes on air. It has rich material and isn’t clear what it thinks about it. It has two performances of Oscar caliber, but do they connect?
Freddie (Phoenix), a volatile, heavy-drinking veteran who suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder, finds some semblance of a family when he stumbles onto the ship of Lancaster Dodd (Hoffman), the charismatic leader of a new "religion" he forms after World War II.
A troubled World War II veteran falls in with the charismatic leader of a controversial religious cult in this pensive character study.
Sep 13, 2012 · “The Master,” Paul Thomas Anderson’s imposing, confounding and altogether amazing new film, is partly concerned with the life and work of one Lancaster Dodd, leader of a therapeutic,...