Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 158 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
Why tonight?
- A long one. Start it early, and give it the whole evening.
- One of the best-reviewed films Cue holds.
The story
Ruthless silver miner, turned oil prospector, Daniel Plainview, moves to oil-rich California. Using his son to project a trustworthy, family-man image, Plainview cons local landowners into selling him their valuable properties for a pittance. However, local preacher Eli Sunday suspects Plainview's motives and intentions, starting a slow-burning feud that threatens both their lives.
- california
- petrol
- sibling relationship
- based on novel or book
- capitalism
- pastor
- deaf-mute
- greed
- american dream
- narcissism
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Daniel Day-Lewis
Daniel Plainview
Paul Dano
Paul Sunday / Eli Sunday
Kevin J. O'Connor
Henry
Ciarán Hinds
Fletcher Hamilton
- Dillon Freasier — H.W. Plainview
- Hope Elizabeth Reeves — Elizabeth
- Colleen Foy — Mary Sunday
- Barry Del Sherman — H. B. Ailman
- David Willis — Abel Sunday
- Hans Howes — Mr. Bandy
- Sydney McCallister — Mary Sunday (young)
- Paul F. Tompkins — Prescott
- Kevin Breznahan — Signal Hill Man
- Jim Meskimen — Signal Hill Married Man
- Erica Sullivan — Signal Hill Woman
- Directed
- Paul Thomas Anderson
- Written
- Paul Thomas Anderson
Production
- Rating
- 8.1 / 10 · 7,677 ratings
- Studio
- Paramount Vantage, Miramax, JoAnne Sellar Productions, Ghoulardi Film Company
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
