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The Master is a 2012 American psychological drama film written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson and starring Joaquin Phoenix, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Amy Adams.
Sep 21, 2012 · The Master: Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. With Joaquin Phoenix, Price Carson, Mike Howard, Sarah Shoshana David. A Naval veteran arrives home from war unsettled and uncertain of his future - until he is tantalized by the Cause and its charismatic leader.
Sep 19, 2012 · This Freddie Quell has an unnatural and dangerous taste for booze in all forms. The film opens with him on board a U.S. Navy vessel in the Pacific just as World War II ends. As news of peace comes over the radio, he already has his plans made. He goes directly below deck and begins draining fuel from a torpedo.
Sep 14, 2012 · Smart and solidly engrossing, The Master extends Paul Thomas Anderson's winning streak of challenging films for serious audiences. Read Critics Reviews
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Haunted by his past, WW-II veteran and drifter Freddie Quell crosses paths with a mysterious movement called The Cause, led by Lancaster Dodd, aka The Master, and his wife Peggy.
Freddie (Phoenix), a volatile, heavy-drinking veteran who suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder, finds some semblance of a family when he stumbles onto the ship of Lancaster Dodd (Hoffman), the charismatic leader of a new "religion" he forms after World War II.
A World War II veteran (Joaquin Phoenix of WALK THE LINE, GLADIATOR) arrives home from war unsettled and uncertain of his future- until he becomes the right-hand man to a charismatic intellectual...
Sep 13, 2012 · Drama. R. 2h 18m. By A.O. Scott. Sept. 13, 2012. “The Master,” Paul Thomas Anderson’s imposing, confounding and altogether amazing new film, is partly concerned with the life and work of one...
A striking portrait of drifters and seekers in post World War II America, Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master unfolds the journey of a Naval veteran (Joaquin...
Paul Thomas Anderson’s monumental portrait of a traumatized postwar America features two staggering performances: from Joaquin Phoenix—as Freddie Quell, a hard-drinking Navy veteran prone to violence—and Philip Seymour Hoffman as Lancaster Dodd, the charismatic leader of a new cult-like religion known as the Cause.
