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Jan 7, 2000 · 192. Play trailer 2:46. 3 Videos. 99+ Photos. Drama. An epic mosaic of interrelated characters in search of love, forgiveness and meaning in the San Fernando Valley. Director. Paul Thomas Anderson. Writer. Paul Thomas Anderson. Stars. Tom Cruise. Jason Robards. Julianne Moore. See production info at IMDbPro. STREAMING. +2. Add to Watchlist.
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Mar 28, 2023 · Theatrical trailer of "Magnolia" by Paul Thomas Anderson. Starring Tom Cruise, Jason Robards, Julianne Moore, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Pat Healy, Genevieve Zweig, Mark Flanagan, Neil Flynn, Rod...
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Los Angeles police officer Jim Kurring investigates a disturbance at a woman's apartment, finding a body in a closet. Dixon, a neighborhood boy, unsuccessfully tries to tell him who committed the murder. Jim goes to the apartment of Claudia Wilson, whose neighbors called the police after she argued with her estranged father, Jimmy Gator, and blaste...
Development
Anderson started to get ideas for Magnolia during the long editing period of Boogie Nights (1997). As he got closer to finishing the film, he started writing down material for his new project. After the critical and financial success of Boogie Nights, New Line Cinema, who backed that film, told Anderson that he could do whatever he wanted and the filmmaker realized that, "I was in a position I will never ever be in again." Michael De Luca, then head of production at New Line Cinema, made the...
Screenplay
By the time he started writing the script, Anderson was listening to the music of his friend Aimee Mann. He used her first two solo albums and demo tracks for her upcoming third album, Bachelor No. 2 or, the Last Remains of the Dodo, as a basis and inspiration; he said he "sat down to write an adaptation of Aimee Mann songs". In particular, Mann's song "Deathly" inspired the character of Claudia. Claudia uses part of the lyric as dialogue in the film ("Now that I've met you / Would you object...
Casting
Tom Cruise was a fan of Anderson's previous film, Boogie Nights, and contacted Anderson while he was working on Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut (1999). Anderson met with Cruise on the set of Kubrick's film and Cruise told him to keep him in mind for his next film. After Anderson finished the script, he sent Cruise a copy and the next day, Cruise called him. Cruise was interested but nervous about the role. Anderson met with Cruise along with De Luca who helped convince Cruise to do the film....
Anderson met Aimee Mann in 1996 when he asked her husband, Michael Penn, to write the score and songs for his film, Hard Eight. Mann had songs on soundtracks before but never "in such an integral way", she said in an interview.[failed verification] She gave Anderson rough mixes of songs and found that they both wrote about the same kinds of charact...
Box office
Magnolia initially opened in a limited release on December 17, 1999, in seven theaters grossing $193,604. The film was given a wide release on January 7, 2000, in 1,034 theaters grossing $5.7 million on its opening weekend. It eventually grossed $22.5million in the United States and Canada, and $26.0million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $48.5million, against a budget of $37million.
Critical response
On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 82% of 216 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 7.6/10. The website's consensus reads: "An eruption of feeling that's as overwhelming as it is overwrought, Paul Thomas Anderson's Magnolia reaches a fevered crescendo and sustains it thanks to its fearlessly committed ensemble." Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 78 out of 100, based on 34 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews....
Accolades
1. In 2004, the American Film Institute nominated the song "Save Me" from this film for AFI's 100 Years ... 100 Songs.
Essays have been written on the themes in Magnolia, such as regret; loneliness; the cost of failed relationships as a result of parents, particularly fathers, who have failed their children;and cruelty to children and its lasting effect (as demonstrated by the sexual assault perpetrated on Claudia by Jimmy).
The DVD release includes a lengthy behind-the-scenes documentary, That Moment. It uses a fly-on-the-wall approach to cover nearly every aspect of production, from production management and scheduling to music direction to special effects. The behind-the-scenes documentary is an in-depth look into Anderson's motivation and directing style. Pre-produ...
Magnolia at AllMovieMagnolia at IMDbThe Best and Worst of Magnolia’s Multiple Melodramas from The A.V. ClubNov 27, 2008 · Reviews | Great Movies. Tales of loneliness, in full flower. Roger Ebert November 27, 2008. Tweet. Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch. "Magnolia" is a film of sadness and loss, of lifelong bitterness, of children harmed and adults destroying themselves.
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