There Will Be Blood

A sprawling epic of family, faith, power and oil, THERE WILL BE BLOOD is set on the incendiary frontier of California’s turn-of-the-century petroleum boom. The story chronicles the life and times of one Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day-Lewis), who transforms himself from a down-and-out silver miner raising a son on his own into a self-made oil tycoon. When Plainview gets a mysterious tip-off that there’s a little town out West where an ocean of oil is oozing out of the ground, he heads with his son, H.W. (Dillon Freasier), to take their chances in dust-worn Little Boston. In this hardscrabble town, where the main excitement centers around the holy roller church of charismatic preacher Eli Sunday (Paul Dano), Plainview and H.W. make their lucky strike. But even as the well raises all of their fortunes, nothing will remain the same as conflicts escalate and every human value – love, hope, community, belief, ambition and even the bond between father and son – is imperiled by corruption, deception and the flow of oil.

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Release Date: December 26, 2007
Genre: Drama and Adaptation
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Distributors: Paramount Vantage, Miramax International
Tagline: There Will Be Greed. There Will Be Vengeance.
MPAA Rating: R for some violence.

Director:
Paul Thomas Anderson

Writer(s):
Paul Thomas Anderson - Screenplay (adaptation)
Upton Sinclair (II) - Source Material (from novel: "Oil!")

Producer(s):
Scott Rudin - Executive Producer
Eric Schlosser - Executive Producer
JoAnne Sellar - Producer
Paul Thomas Anderson - Producer
Daniel Lupi - Producer

Movie Casts:
Daniel Day-Lewis - Plainview
Paul Dano - Eli Sunday
Kevin J. O'Connor - Henry
Ciarán Hinds - Fletcher
Dillon Freasier - H.W.
Russell Harvard - H.W. - Older
Randall Carver - Mr. Bankside
Mary Elizabeth Barrett - Fannie Clark
Kevin Breznahan - Signal Hill Man
Brad Carr - Signal hill man
Mark Flanagan
Colleen Foy - Adult Mary Sunday
Vince Froio - Plainview Servant
Hans Howes - Bandy
Erica Jones - Little Girl (voice)
John Kerry - Oilman
Coco Leigh - Mrs. Bankside
Jim Meskimen - Signal Hill Married Man
Hope Elizabeth Reeves - Elizabeth
Rhonda Reeves - Elizabeth's Mother / Eli follower
Erica Sullivan - Signal Hill Woman
Paul F. Tompkins - Prescott
January Welsh - Eli's Lady
David Willis - Abel Sunday

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