There Will Be Blood(2007)

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Synopsis

On the frontier of California's turn-of-the-century petroleum boom, Daniel Plainview 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., 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, 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.
On the frontier of California's turn-of-the-century petroleum boom, Daniel Plainview 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 …
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In Theaters

  • December 26, 2007

MPAA Rating

R (for some violence.)

Genres

Drama, Adaptation, Period

Run Time

2 hours 38 minutes

Distributors

Paramount Vantage

Box Office

$40,218,904

Also Known As

  • Oil

Production Status

Released

Filming Locations

  • Marfa, Texas, USA
  • Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA

Produced In

United States

Director

CAST

Daniel Day-Lewis

Daniel Plainview

Mary Elizabeth Barrett

Fannie Clark

Paul Dano

Eli Sunday/Paul Sunday

Dillon Freasier

HW Plainview

Christine Olejniczak

Mother Sunday

Kevin O'Connor

Henry
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