Magnolia

1999 · 3h 9m · 7.7

Drama

On one random day in the San Fernando Valley, a dying father, a young wife, a male caretaker, a famous lost son, a police officer in love, a boy genius, an ex-boy genius, a game show host and an estranged daughter will each become part of a dazzling multiplicity of plots, but one story.

Paul Thomas Anderson

Tom Cruise, Philip Baker Hall, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Julianne Moore, William H. Macy, John C. Reilly, Melora Walters, Jeremy Blackman, Jason Robards, Melinda Dillon

dying and death, daughter, farewell, regret, unsociability, chance, becoming an adult, parent child relationship, suicide attempt, loss of loved one, child prodigy, reconciliation, san fernando valley, multiple storylines, frog, bewildered