Magnolia (movie)
Magnolia is a 1999 independent motion picture, written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson that tells the story of a peculiar interaction among several individuals during one apparently normal day in the San Fernando Valley, California.It stars Julianne Moore, Jason Robards, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Tom Cruise, Luis Guzman, Philip Baker Hall, April Grace, Ricky Jay, Orlando Jones, William H. Macy, Alfred Molina, Jeremy Blackman, Michael Murphy, John C. Reilly, Melinda Dillon, Melora Walters, Michael Bowen and Felicity Huffman. The length of the film is 188 minutes.
The ingenious interweaving of nine separate, yet connected, storylines is ambitious, and results in a film which is original, complex and compelling. Paul Thomas Anderson has stated that the screenplay was written largely around the songs of Aimee Mann, who also appears in the movie trailer.
It features particularly strong performances from Philip Seymour Hoffman, Jason Robards, April Grace, Philip Baker Hall, Julianne Moore and Tom Cruise - a role for which he was nominated as Best Supporting Actor in the Academy Awards and won the award in the same category at the Golden Globes of 2000.
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