Rating: R
Genre: Drama
Theatrical Release: 12/26/2007(USA
Release Date: 04/08/2008
SubTitles: English/French/Espanol
Dubbed: English/French/Espanol
Sound: DD5.1
Run Time: 158 Minutes
Flags: Violence
Distributor/Studio: Paramount

Writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson steps outside his contemporary world of dysfunctional Angelenos to explore a very different dysfunctional man -- an oil pioneer whose trailblazing spirit is equaled only by his murderous ambition. There Will Be Blood is Anderson's loose adaptation of the novel Oil! by Upton Sinclair, and it focuses its attentions on Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day-Lewis), a failed silver miner who happens upon black gold during a disastrous excavation that ends in a broken leg. Pulling himself up from the bowels of the earth, both literally and metaphorically, Plainview embarks on a systematic and steadfast approach to mastering the oil business. Using plain-spoken and straightforward language, and accompanied by his young son, H.W. (Dillon Freasier), Plainview launches a campaign to convince small-town property owners they should let him drill their land. Without him, they won't have the equipment to access the profit beneath their feet. He builds an empire this way -- and gradually becomes obsessed with the intrinsic value of power, growing increasingly irascible and paranoid in the process. Plainview meets his match in Eli Sunday (Paul Dano), a teenage preacher in the small California town of Little Boston, whose brother tipped Plainview off to the town's plentiful supply of untapped oil. To fully reap the benefits of the land, Plainview must suffer the opposing whims of this "prophet," whose legitimacy is questionable at best. And it's unclear either man is prepared to pay the humiliating price the other wants to exact. There Will Be Blood features an anachronistic percussive soundtrack by Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood, and it was shot in the same town where the James Dean epic Giant was filmed.

~ Derek Armstrong, All Movie Guide

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Cast:
Daniel Day-Lewis - Daniel Plainview
Paul Dano - Eli Sunday
Kevin J. O'Connor - Henry
Ciarán Hinds - Fletcher
Dillon Freasier - H.W. Plainview
Sydney McCallister - Mary Sunday
David Willis - Abel Sunday
David Warshofsky - H.M. Tilford
Colton Woodward - William Bandy
Colleen Foy - Adult Mary Sunday
Russell Harvard - Adult H.W.

Production:
Paul Thomas Anderson - Director
Joanne Sellar Daniel Lupi Paul Thomas Anderson - Producer
Jonny Greenwood - Composer
Tatiana S. Riegel Dylan Tichenor - Editor
Paul Thomas Anderson - Screen Writer
Carl Stensel - Set Designer
David Crank - Art Director
Upton Sinclair - Book Author
Cassandra Kulukundis - Casting
Robert Elswit - Cinematographer
Mark Bridges - Costume Designer
Eric Schlosser - Executive Producer
Scott Rudin - Executive Producer
Adam Somner - First Assistant Director
Jack Fisk - Production Designer
Michael Semanick - Re-Recording Mixer
Tom Johnson - Re-Recording Mixer
Jim Erickson - Set Decorator
Matthew Wood - Sound Editor
Christopher Scarabosio - Sound/Sound Designer
John Pritchett - Sound/Sound Designer
Jeff Habberstad - Stunts Coordinator
Myke Schwartz - Stunts Coordinator
David Williams - Executive Producer

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