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Writers (WGA):
Paul Thomas Anderson (screenplay)
Upton Sinclair (novel)
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Release Date:
11 January 2008 (USA) more
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When Ambition Meets Faith more
Plot:
A story about family, greed, religion, and oil, centered around a turn-of-the-century prospector in the early days of the business. full summary | full synopsis
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Awards:
Won 2 Oscars. Another 56 wins & 52 nominations more
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Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Daniel Day-Lewis ... Daniel Plainview
Martin Stringer ... Silver Assay Worker
Matthew Braden Stringer ... Silver Assay Worker
Jacob Stringer ... Silver Assay Worker
Joseph Mussey ... Silver Assay Worker
Barry Del Sherman ... H.B. Ailman
Harrison Taylor ... Baby H.W. Plainview
Stockton Taylor ... Baby H.W. Plainview
Paul F. Tompkins ... Prescott
Dillon Freasier ... Young H.W. Plainview

Kevin Breznahan ... Signal Hill Man

Jim Meskimen ... Signal Hill Married Man
Erica Sullivan ... Signal Hill Woman

Randall Carver ... Mr. Bankside
Coco Leigh ... Mrs. Bankside
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Oil! (USA) (working title)
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MPAA:
Rated R for some violence.
Runtime:
158 min
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2.35 : 1 more
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Certification:
Ireland:15A | Finland:K-13 | Singapore:PG | Canada:13+ (Québec) | Canada:14A (Manitoba) | Germany:12 (f) | Netherlands:16 | South Africa:16LV | USA:R (certificate #43414) | Brazil:14 | Australia:M | UK:12A (original rating) | UK:15 (re-rating on appeal) | Norway:15 | Czech Republic:15 | Switzerland:14 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:14 (canton of Vaud) | Philippines:R-13 (MTRCB) | New Zealand:R13 | Denmark:15 | Sweden:15 | Canada:PG (Alberta/British Columbia/Ontario) | South Korea:15 | Hong Kong:IIA | Malaysia:U | Argentina:13 | Taiwan:R-12 | Greece:K-13 | France:U (with warning) | Portugal:M/12 (Qualidade) | Austria:16

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A little-known band in Manchester, UK have adopted the name of Eli and The Third Revelation in homage to the film. more
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Anachronisms: A fireside scene reveals Plainview's boot to have a waffle sole. The waffle sole was not invented nor used until the early-mid 70's. more
Quotes:
Eli Sunday: How is all the work coming?
Plainview: Everything's good.
Eli Sunday: All the men are provided for?
Plainview: Of course.
Eli Sunday: Spirit's seem high. Is there... anything that you need from me? Anything the church can do for you?
Plainview: I don't believe so, no. Thank you.
Eli Sunday: I understand you've asked the people to gather round and watch the well begin tomorrow, is that right?
Plainview: That's right.
Eli Sunday: I will bless the well. Before you begin, you should introduce me. You'll see me walk up towards the oil well, and...
Plainview: The derrick.
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Fratres for Cello and Piano more

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242 out of 437 people found the following comment useful.
Stunning, 27 December 2007

This film raises the game for everyone out there. I have loved all of Paul Thomas Anderson's work, including his greatly underrated Punch-Drunk Love, but this is a huge leap from any of the previous movies into a realm, as others have said, inhabited by classics such as Treasure of the Sierra Madre - and then some. Every element of this film is astonishing, from the opening twenty minutes, which feature virtually no dialog, to Jonny Greenwood's score, which I have heard criticized as too imposing but which seems just about perfect to me (and brings to mind the non-Blue Danube elements of 2001 at its most experimental). Daniel Day-Lewis' performance is in a league of its own: his voice, his mannerisms, his physical movement, his stunted emotions, are flesh and blood, and hauntingly so, in a way that even Tommy Lee Jones in In The Valley of Elah (which I thought was a pretty staggering performance) can't quite attain. I will watch this film again and again simply to see something so raw and so moving and so gut-wrenching. This is why I love movies; this is what made me want to make movies when I was fourteen years old.

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