Magnolia
It is a collection of events that speak of love and forgiveness. This story begins with two parallel and complex narratives about men about to die. Perhaps there may be a baby boy and the son of Earl Partridge is a talented kanza. On the other hand, there is the daughter of Jimmy Gator is the Cokehead and Waif. A moderate and caring nurse mediated for Earl, up the son; a crooked and Muslim prayer meets the daughter. On the other hand, the guilt consumes Earl's young wife, while facing two prominent children, where there seem to be more stories that look different in the San Fernande Valley.
24 June 1935, USA
27 January 1969, Portsmouth, Virginia, USA
3 July 1962, Syracuse, New York, USA
12 March 1981, Downey, California, USA
3 August 1978, Massachusetts, USA
1948, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
12 September 1968, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
July 19, 2014
Go see it for yourself. And don't be surprised if you want to see it again and again.
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.
June 24, 2006
One of the most enthralling and exhilarating American movies in ages.
January 10, 2010
...it finally slumps down under its own weight and becomes a shambles. But, dang, it's such an attractive shambles.
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.
April 27, 2007
What this film may have needed to get on its feet is some honest-to-goodness violence.
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.
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 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
April 28, 2008
A wonderful mess.
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
