Drama & Adaptation
Starring: Daniel Day-Lewis
158 min.
Rated: R for some violence
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Won 2 Oscars. Another 47 wins & 42 nominations
When Ambition Meets Faith...
An epic tale of family, faith, power and oil set on the incendiary
frontier of California's turn-of-the-century petroleum boom. The story
chronicles the life and times of one Daniel Plainview, 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., 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, 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.
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