Freddie, 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, the charismatic leader of a new "religion" he forms after World War II.
09-14-2012
2h 17m
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Main Cast
Movie Details
Production Info
Director:
Paul Thomas Anderson
Writer:
Paul Thomas Anderson
Production:
Annapurna Pictures, Ghoulardi Film Company, JoAnne Sellar Productions
Revenue:
$28,258,060
Budget:
$32,000,000
Key Crew
Original Music Composer:
Jonny Greenwood
Director of Photography:
Mihai Malaimare Jr.
Casting:
Cassandra Kulukundis
Production Design:
Jack Fisk
Stunts:
Paul E. Short
Locations and Languages
Country:
US
Filming:
US
Languages:
en
Main Cast
Joaquin Phoenix
Joaquin Rafael Phoenix (born October 28, 1974) is an American actor, producer, and animal rights activist. Known for playing dark and unconventional characters in independent film, he is the recipient of various accolades, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, a Grammy Award, and two Golden Globe Awards. In 2020, he was ranked 12th on the list of the 25 Greatest Actors of the 21st Century by The New York Times.
Born in Puerto Rico and raised in Los Angeles and Florida, Phoenix began his career by appearing in television series in the early 1980s with his brother River. His first major film roles were in SpaceCamp (1986) and Parenthood (1989). During this period, he was credited as Leaf Phoenix, a name he gave himself. He took back his birth first name in the early 1990s and received critical acclaim for his supporting roles in the comedy-drama film To Die For (1995) and the period film Quills (2000). Phoenix received further critical acclaim and first Academy Award and Golden Globe Award nominations for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for his portrayal of the evil emperor Commodus in the historical drama film Gladiator (2000). He had success with the horror films Signs (2002) and The Village (2004), the historical drama Hotel Rwanda (2004) and won a Grammy, a Golden Globe and a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of musician Johnny Cash in the biopic Walk the Line (2005). He continued to receive acclaim in two features with his frequent director James Gray; the action thriller We Own the Night (2007) and the romantic drama Two Lovers (2008), before taking a break from acting.
In the 2010s, Phoenix returned to acting to critical acclaim. He starred in the psychological drama The Master (2012), winning the Volpi Cup for Best Actor and earning his third Academy Award nomination. He received Golden Globe nominations for his roles in the romantic drama Her (2013) and the crime satire Inherent Vice (2014) and won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor for his performance in the psychological thriller You Were Never Really Here (2017). Phoenix achieved international stardom and won an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award and a second Golden Globe Award for his portrayal of the title character in Joker (2019).
Phoenix is an animal rights activist. He has been vegan since the age of three and regularly supports charitable causes and has produced several documentaries on global meat consumption and its impact on the environment. He is in a relationship with actress Rooney Mara, with whom he has a son.
Philip Seymour Hoffman (July 23, 1967 – February 2, 2014) was an American actor, director, and producer. Best known for his distinctive supporting and character roles–typically lowlifes, eccentrics, bullies, and misfits—Hoffman acted in many films, including leading roles, from the early 1990s until his death in 2014.
Drawn to theater as a teenager, Hoffman studied acting at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. He began his screen career in a 1991 episode of Law & Order and started to appear in films in 1992. He gained recognition for his supporting work, notably in Scent of a Woman (1992), Boogie Nights (1997), Happiness (1998), Patch Adams (1998), The Big Lebowski (1998), Magnolia (1999), The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999), Almost Famous (2000), Punch-Drunk Love (2002), and Along Came Polly (2004). He began to occasionally play leading roles, and for his portrayal of the author Truman Capote in Capote (2005), won multiple accolades, including the Academy Award for Best Actor. Hoffman's profile continued to grow and he received three more Oscar nominations for his supporting work as a brutally frank CIA officer in Charlie Wilson's War (2007), a priest accused of pedophilia in Doubt (2008), and the charismatic leader of a Scientology-type movement in The Master (2012).
While he mainly worked in independent films, including The Savages (2007) and Synecdoche, New York (2008), Hoffman also appeared in Flawless (1999), and Hollywood blockbusters such as Twister (1996) and Mission: Impossible III (2006), and in one of his final roles, as Plutarch Heavensbee in the Hunger Games series (2013–15). The feature Jack Goes Boating (2010) marked his debut as a filmmaker. Hoffman was also an accomplished theater actor and director. He joined the off-Broadway LAByrinth Theater Company in 1995, where he directed, produced, and appeared in numerous stage productions. His performances in three Broadway plays—True West in 2000, Long Day's Journey into Night in 2003, and Death of a Salesman in 2012—all led to Tony Award nominations.
Amy Adams (born August 20, 1974) is an American actress. Known for both her comedic and dramatic roles, she has been featured three times in annual rankings of the world's highest-paid actresses. She has received various accolades, including two Golden Globe Awards, in addition to nominations for six Academy Awards, seven British Academy Film Awards, and two Primetime Emmy Awards.
Adams began her career as a dancer in dinner theater, which she pursued from 1994 to 1998, and made her film debut with a supporting part in the dark comedy Drop Dead Gorgeous (1999). She made guest appearances in television and took on "mean girl" parts in low-budget feature films. Her first major role came in Steven Spielberg's biopic Catch Me If You Can (2002), but she was unemployed for a year afterward. Her breakthrough came when she portrayed a loquacious pregnant woman in the independent comedy-drama Junebug (2005), for which she received her first Academy Award nomination.
The musical fantasy film Enchanted (2007), in which Adams played a cheerful princess-to-be, was her first success as a leading lady. She followed this by playing other naïve, optimistic women in films like the drama Doubt (2008), and subsequently played more assertive parts to positive reviews in the sports film The Fighter (2010) and the psychological drama The Master (2012). From 2013 to 2017, she portrayed Lois Lane in superhero films set in the DC Extended Universe. She won two consecutive Golden Globe Awards for Best Actress for playing a seductive con artist in the crime film American Hustle (2013) and the painter Margaret Keane in the biopic Big Eyes (2014). Further acclaim came for playing a linguist in the science fiction film Arrival (2016), a self-harming reporter in the HBO miniseries Sharp Objects (2018), and Lynne Cheney in the satire Vice (2018).
Adams' stage roles include the Public Theater's revival of Into the Woods in 2012 and the West End theatre revival of The Glass Menagerie in 2022. In 2014, she was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time, and featured in the Forbes Celebrity 100 list.
Rami Said Malek (born May 12, 1981) is an American actor. He is known for portraying computer hacker Elliot Alderson in the USA Network television series Mr. Robot (2015–2019), for which he received the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series, and as Queen lead singer Freddie Mercury in the biographical film Bohemian Rhapsody (2018), for which he won numerous accolades, including the Academy Award for Best Actor, becoming the first actor of Egyptian heritage to win in that category. Time magazine named Malek one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2019.
Born in Torrance, California, to Egyptian immigrant parents, he studied theater before acting in plays in New York City. He had supporting roles in film and television, including the Fox sitcom The War at Home (2005–2007), the HBO miniseries The Pacific (2010), and the Night at the Museum film trilogy (2006–2014). Since his breakthrough, Malek has starred in Papillon (2017), the crime film The Little Things (2021), played the main antagonist Lyutsifer Safin in the James Bond film No Time to Die (2021), and portrayed David Hill in Christopher Nolan's biographical film Oppenheimer (2023).
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Laura Elizabeth Dern (born February 10, 1967) is an American actress and filmmaker. She is the recipient of numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, and five Golden Globe Awards. Born to actors Bruce Dern and Diane Ladd, Dern embarked on an acting career in the 1980s and rose to some prominence for her performances in Mask (1985) and David Lynch's Blue Velvet (1986) and Wild at Heart (1990). She received an Academy Award nomination for her portrayal of the titular orphan in the drama film Rambling Rose (1991) and achieved international recognition for her role in Steven Spielberg's adventure film Jurassic Park (1993), a role that she reprised in the 2001 sequel Jurassic Park III.
After winning two Golden Globe Awards for her performances as Katherine Harris in the television film Recount (2008) and Amy Jellicoe in the comedy-drama series Enlightened (2011–2013), Dern garnered her second Academy Award nomination for her work in the biopic Wild (2014). In 2017, she began starring as Renata Klein in the drama series Big Little Lies, winning a Primetime Emmy Award and Golden Globe Award, and reunited with David Lynch for Twin Peaks: The Return. She has since played supporting roles in the films Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017), Marriage Story (2019), and Little Women (2019). Her performance in Marriage Story won her an Academy Award and Golden Globe Award, both for Best Supporting Actress.
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Jesse Plemons (born April 2, 1988) is an American actor. He began his career as a child actor and achieved a breakthrough with his role as Landry Clarke in the NBC drama series Friday Night Lights (2006–2011). He subsequently portrayed Todd Alquist in season 5 of the AMC crime drama series Breaking Bad (2012–2013) and its sequel film El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie (2019). For his role as Ed Blumquist in season 2 of the FX anthology series Fargo (2015), he received his first Primetime Emmy Award nomination and won a Critics' Choice Television Award. He received a second Emmy nomination for his performance in "USS Callister", an episode of the Netflix anthology series Black Mirror (2017). Plemons received his third Emmy nomination for his supporting role in the HBO miniseries Love & Death (2023).
Plemons has appeared in supporting roles in several films, including The Master (2012), Black Mass, Bridge of Spies (both 2015), Game Night, Vice (both 2018), The Irishman (2019), Judas and the Black Messiah, Jungle Cruise, and The Power of the Dog (all in 2021). He has also starred in the psychological thriller I'm Thinking of Ending Things (2020). He was nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Male Lead for his starring role in Other People (2016), and for his performance in The Power of the Dog, he was nominated for a BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role and the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
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Childers was born in Cottonwood, Arizona and raised in Murrieta, California. Childers attended Vista Murrieta High School. After appearing in the 2003 film Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star, Childers became established for her role on the daytime soap opera All My Children as Colby Chandler, whom she portrayed from 2006 to 2008. She also played Elizabeth "E" Dodd in The Master. Childers is married to movie producer Randall Emmett and their daughter, London, was born on February 2, 2010.
Madisen Beaty is an American actress, known for her roles as Daisy Fuller in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Doris Solstad in The Master, Rebeccah Mulcahey in Other People, and as Talya Banks in the ABC Family series The Fosters. Wikipedia
An American actor. He is known for playing character roles in major studio films such as There Will Be Blood, The Mummy, Clive Barker’s Lord of Illusions, F/X2 and Van Helsing. He is a favorite of writer/director Stephen Sommers, who usually casts him in his films.
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Patty McCormack (born August 21, 1945) is an American actress with a career in theater, films and television.
She achieved success as a child actress, and received a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in The Bad Seed (1956). Her acting career has continued with supporting roles in film and television, including a more recent performance as Pat Nixon in Frost/Nixon (2008).
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Lena Endre (born 8 July 1955) is a Swedish actress. She was born in Lidingö, Stockholm County, and grew up in Härnösand, Ångermanland and Trollbäcken, Tyresö. She had her breakthrough in the Swedish TV-series Varuhuset and Lorry in the 1980s. Since then she has acted in a number of TV-series and movies, both in Sweden and Norway. She is perhaps best known for her part in the Liv Ullmann film Trolösa (2000) as well as her role as Katarina, the love interest for Wallander in the second TV series of that name.
She has appeared in two films by Danish director Simon Staho, Dag och Natt and Himlens Hjärta for which she was nominated as Best Leading Actress at the Swedish film awards, "Guldbagge".
Endre has been married to the Swedish director Richard Hobert since 2000. She has two children from an earlier marriage with the actor Thomas Hanzon.
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Jennifer Neala Page attended Rose Bruford Conservatory of Speech and Drama in London. Her career started in Theatre with credits including; Dancing At Lughnasa, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Newsrevue, Neil Labute's Bash (for which she won a Golden Production Award), and The Really Useful Company/ Andrew Lloyd Webber's Daisy Pulls It Off in London's Westend to rave reviews.
Jillian Bell (born April 25, 1984) is an American comedian, actress, and screenwriter. Jillian was raised in Las Vegas, Nevada and began studying improv at the age of eight. She graduated from Bishop Gorman High School in 2002, then moved to Los Angeles, where she became a member of the Groundlings. She auditioned for Saturday Night Live, and though she did not join the cast, she became a writer for the show in 2009 for the 35th season.
Kevin J. Walsh is an American film and TV producer. Walsh is best known for producing the critically acclaimed film Manchester by the Sea, in which he earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture with Matt Damon, Kimberly Steward, Chris Moore, and Lauren Beck. The film received 18 major award nominations and won two Academy Awards.
In 2022, Walsh began a multi-year deal with Apple TV+ to produce film and television for the studio under his banner, The Walsh Company. His first films to be released for Apple TV+ will be Napoleon, directed by Ridley Scott and starring Joaquin Phoenix and Vanessa Kirby; The Instigators directed by Doug Liman and starring Matt Damon, Casey Affleck and Hong Chau; and Echo Valley, directed by Michael Pearce starring Julianne Moore and Sydney Sweeney.
Prior to his deal with Apple TV+, Walsh was the President of Scott Free Productions, a film and television production company established by Ridley Scott and Tony Scott in 1995. At Scott Free, Walsh produced a dozen films in the six years that he oversaw the film group, including Boston Strangler, Death on the Nile, House of Gucci, The Last Duel, Earthquake Bird, Our Friend, American Woman and All the Money in the World.
Walsh got his start in the film business working as an assistant to Scott Rudin on seven films including Zoolander, The Hours, and The Royal Tenenbaums. He later worked for Steven Spielberg on multiple films including Munich, The Adventures of Tintin, and War of the Worlds. Walsh was also cast as an actor in The Master.
David Warshofsky (born David Warner) is an American actor. The aspiring actor studied in New York City at NYU's prestigious Tisch School of the Arts and reverted to his family's Russian surname upon joining the theatrical performer's union The Actor's Equity.
His talent for finding the heart of even the most minor characters first surfaced in 1989's Last Exit to Brooklyn, which he followed with a string of appearances on everything from the gadget-happy sitcom Home Improvement (ABC, 1991-99), to the medical drama Chicago Hope (CBS, 1994-2000).
Many of his film roles showcased his signature mix of everyman amiability and stoic intensity: there's the Navy SEAL instructor in G.I. Jane (1997); low-key cop in The Bone Collector (1999); greedy oil executive in There Will Be Blood (2007); and longtime CIA agent in the Taken trilogy.
He served as an assistant professor of theatre acting at the University of Southern California, and later juggled his promotion to Head of Acting with a supporting role in the Oscar-nominated Lincoln (2012).
Katie Boland is a Canadian actress, writer, director, and producer. She began her career as a child actress in film and television and has since branched out into adult roles, in addition to writing, directing, and producing her own projects, including short films and a novel. She runs a production company called Straight Shooters in partnership with her mother, director Gail Harvey.
Jeffrey Jenkins is SAG eligible Actor, he was born in San Francisco, and grew up in the small town of San Bruno; just a few miles south on the Peninsula. He started taking Tap dancing at age eight, which led to a continued study of Jazz, Swing, Waltz, and Social ballroom; and has been performing on stage ever since. After high school he was cast in thirteen local community theater productions, and he has studied Voice under Mildred Owen; he is a Bass/Baritone. He studied Acting with Bob Curtis at Cañada College, Advance Acting with Professor Jo Tomlin and Barbara Damashek, and Advanced in Front of the Camera with Professor Rick Houlberg, at SFSU. He received his BA in Broadcasting Electronic Communication Arts; emphasis in Production and Animation; 2007. During his senior year he interned for the MythBusters on Discovery Channel as a PA, Researcher and Location Scout, and won best documentary for a short film titled, 'Living History,' that he directed and produced at SFSU; and a national AEGIS award. He started Acting seriously again in 2009, landing background roles in 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,"The Butler's In Love,' and five episodes on NBC's 'Trauma.' His first starring role was for Investigation Discovery Channel's 'I Almost Got Away with It;' episode: 203, 'Got a Dead Man's ID;' and he has been a co-star in three following episodes. He got his SAG eligibility working for Paul Thomas Anderson on 'The Master,' along side Joaquin Phoenix and Phillip Seymour Hoffman, which landed him a role and credit. He studies History and collects Vintage clothing which has helped him land many roles and parts. He continues to work in commercials and film: 'Moneyball,' 'Blue Jasmine,' and 'Steve Jobs;' and appreciates everyone that has helped him on this journey. Please see his IMDB and YouTube profiles for videos and images of his work.
- IMDb Mini Biography By: Jeffrey W. Jenkins
William Earl Brown (born September 7, 1963) is an American actor, screenwriter, producer, musician, and songwriter. He is perhaps best known for his roles as Kenny in the film Scream (1996), Warren in the film There's Something About Mary (1998), Dan Dority on the HBO series Deadwood (2004–2006), and the voice and motion capture of Bill in the video game The Last of Us (2013). He has appeared in films such as Backdraft, The Master, Being John Malkovich, The Sessions, Vanilla Sky, The Lone Ranger, and Bloodworth (which he also wrote and produced), as well as series such as Seinfeld, NYPD Blue, C.S.I., C.S.I. Miami, The X-Files, Six Feet Under, Preacher, Bates Motel, True Detective, American Horror Story, Chicago Fire, and The Mandalorian.
Fiona Dourif (born October 30, 1981) is an American actress and producer. She is mostly known for her role as Nica Pierce in the Child's Play movies and the Chucky TV series. She is also known for her role as Bart Curlish in BBC America's Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and as the young Diane Jones in Dustin Lance Black's When We Rise. She has appeared in Showtime's Shameless and in a recurring role on NBC's The Blacklist.
Baily Hopkins is an award-winning actor and violinist. She has worked with many of the film industry's top names including Emmanuel Lubezki, Paul Thomas Anderson, Barry Jenkins, Joe Robert Cole, and the Oscar-nominated directing duo Mihal Brezis & Oded Binnun. She's had her work featured in the San Francisco Green Film Festival, and had films premiere at film festivals all over the world including the Venice Film Festival, the San Francisco International Film Festival, the Mill Valley Film Festival, the Federation Internationale Cinema Television Sportifs in Milan, Cinequest, the FiveTen Film Festival, the Portland Comedy Film Festival, and the Livermore Valley Film Fest. Baily has also appeared in national campaigns for many major brands. On the musical side of things, Baily has played the violin for over 20 years in all sorts of settings; from Carnegie Hall, to Burning Man, to Oakland's Fox Theatre.
Sarah Klaren, a Southern California native, grew up the "black sheep" of the family. Her love for movies began at a very young age, which served as the igniting fire for her passion. She was often ridiculed and bullied by her peers growing up for her wildly active imagination and bold creativity, though she did not let that stop her. A theatre actress from the age of 11, a self-taught guitar player and singer/songwriter from the age of 13, and a charismatic soul in search of every avenue in which she can express herself artistically, Sarah is an adept performer who knows no bounds and is always seeking a challenge.
Brittany Kilcoyne McGregor is a San Diego born actress and singer. She spent her early years attending a performing arts magnet school Vista Academy and starred in local community theatre. She moved north to San Francisco in 2004 on a full presidential scholarship to San Francisco State University. In 2009, after much self exploration and a year in the south of France(2007-2008), she graduated Summa Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa with Bachelors Degrees in both Humanities and Theatre Arts Performance from SFSU. After finishing school she embarked on a indie theatre and commercial career in San Francisco. Brittany was in the original cast of "Trainspotting" author Irvine Welsh's world premier play "Babylon Heights" at the Exit Theater in 2006. In 2009 she performed Edith Piaf's classic music in collaboration with comedian James Judd. She can be seen in many of Stride Gum's Wacky World Records on Facebook. Represented by Look Talent, she was cast as "Young Girl" in Paul Thomas Anderson's upcoming film "The Master" to be released in October 2012. She moved to Los Angeles in early 2012 and began studying with Alice Carter at the Carter Thor Acting Studio. Her partner is renowned guitarist Michael Abraham who also resides in Los Angeles. Together, they perform the music of Edith Piaf and Barbara and many other beloved French singers in local cabarets, clubs and private events. Brittany has also performed with musician Cameron Adair (CA All Day) and composer Adrien Prevost in San Francisco and Los Angeles.
Melora Walters (born October 21, 1959) is an American actress. She is best known for her starring roles as Wanda Henrickson in the television series Big Love and Kathy Kone in PEN15, and has appeared in several Paul Thomas Anderson films.
