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Magnolia
The story of the film tells of more events that appear to be mixed, as there are two parallel and complex narratives about men about to die. It seems that these people are renouncing a growing child, both of whom want to communicate despite everything that happens. On the other hand, Earl Bartridge's son is a talented kanza trying to get what he wants, and Jimmy Gator's daughter is cokehead and waif. Meanwhile, Earl's wife consumes the young girl, while facing two prominent children seem to be living a completely different life.
3 August 1978, Massachusetts, USA
29 August 1986
1 January 1957, Chicago, Illinois, USA
9 December 1962, Bedford, New York, USA
17 April 1965, Louisville, Kentucky, USA
8 September 1961
5 May 1938, Los Angeles, California, USA
26 July 1922, Chicago, Illinois, USA
2 September 1954, Tuba City, Arizona, USA
3 August 1971, Bronx, New York, USA
27 January 1969, Portsmouth, Virginia, USA
15 October 1927, New York City, New York, USA
28 August 1956, Cayey, Puerto Rico
13 March 1950, Miami, Florida, USA
April 18, 2011
Short Cuts is clearly the starting point, but not the ending point for a movie that is probably the most overstuffed with ideas of anything in Paul Thomas Anderson's career.
April 13, 2009
Just as something so reliably surprising as the weather can modify people's behavior, "Magnolia" encompasses an inter-connective human bond that accepts reality's blind spots. Purity of intention, as the story suggests, is a happy accident that can hit ev
January 10, 2010
...it finally slumps down under its own weight and becomes a shambles. But, dang, it's such an attractive shambles.
July 19, 2014
Go see it for yourself. And don't be surprised if you want to see it again and again.
January 22, 2010
A decade after its release, P.T. Anderson's emotionally epic Magnolia gets the glorious Blu-ray treatment it deserves. This Altman-esque mosaic follows several disparate L.A. citizens on one rainy day, as they navigate through mistakes and torrenti
July 21, 2005
All the work is top-notch.
August 22, 2013
As the years pass and we are weathered by universal experiences, the predicaments of Anderson's characters seem less pathetic and more like the plight of everyone we love and admire.
April 28, 2008
A wonderful mess.
March 22, 2002
You don't have to like everything [Anderson] does, but if you enjoy seeing the walls rattled and the roof raised in the Hollywood citadel, you've got to love it.
January 15, 2002
You could spend three hours snickering at Anderson's 'What the World Needs Now Is Aimee Mann' metaphysic. But his vision cuts deeper than a lot of folky bathos.
June 24, 2006
One of the most enthralling and exhilarating American movies in ages.
April 27, 2007
What this film may have needed to get on its feet is some honest-to-goodness violence.
