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This film is produced by Lynn Harris and JoAnne Sellar.
Nominated for three Academy Awards — Best Actor in a Supporting Role for Tom Cruise, Best Original Screenplay for Anderson himself, and Best Original Song for Aimee Mann's "Save Me" — the film walked out of the ceremony empty-handed. Nevertheless, it is fondly remembered by most of those who watched at the time and still holds up as one of Paul Thomas Anderson’s most surreal and very best movies.
On one random day in the San Fernando Valley, a dying father, a young wife, a male caretaker, a famous lost son, a police officer in love, a boy genius, an ex-boy genius, a game show host and an estranged daughter will each become part of a dazzling multiplicity of plots, but one story.
Reviews
"A great, joyous leap into melodrama and coincidence, with ragged emotions, crimes and punishments, deathbed scenes, romantic dreams, generational turmoil, and celestial intervention, all scored to insistent music." – Roger Ebert
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