Runtime: 158

Director: Paul Thomas Anderson

Cast:

Daniel Day-Lewis, Dillon Freasier, Paul Dano, Ciaran Hinds, Kevin J.O'Connor, Upton Sinclair

"There Will Be Blood" is 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 (Daniel Day–Lewis), 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. (Dillon Freasier), 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 (Paul Dano), 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. The movie is very loosely based on Oil!, Upton Sinclair‘s 1927 novel about a corrupt oil family based so loosely, you can see the film, read the book and experience two different stories. Anderson‘s character is a man who has no friends, no lovers, no real partners and an adopted son that he exploits mostly as a prop. Plainview comes from nowhere, stays in contact with no one, and when a man appears claiming to be his half–brother, it is not surprising that they have never met before. Plainview‘s only goal in life is to become enormously wealthy, and he does so.