There Will Be Blood
- Drama
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.
- Directed by
- Paul Thomas Anderson
- Written by
- Paul Thomas Anderson
- Based on
- Upton Sinclair
Cast
- Daniel Day-Lewis
Paul Dano
Kevin J. O'Connor
Ciarán Hinds- Dillon Freasier
- Hope Elizabeth Reeves
- Colleen Foy
- Barry Del Sherman
- David Willis
- Hans Howes
- Sydney McCallister
Paul F. Tompkins
Keywords
- based on novel or book
- california
- capitalism
- greed
- oil industry
- money
- 19th century
- religion
- sibling relationship
- church
- adopted son
- character study
- alcoholic
- fanatic
- american dream
- pastor
- narcissism
- sign languages
- father
- baptism
- misanthrophy
- petrol
- deaf-mute
- oil
- impostor
- child abandonment
- zealot
- bowling alley
- oil field
- turn of the century
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