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There will be blood, Paramount Vantage and Miramax Films present a Joanne Sellar/Ghoulardi Film Company production ; written for the screen and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson ; produced by Joanne Sellar, Paul Thomas Anderson, Daniel Lupi

eng

videorecording

MPAA rating: R for some violence

There will be blood

191960867

Originally produced as a motion picture in 2007

Paramount Vantage and Miramax Films present a Joanne Sellar/Ghoulardi Film Company production ; written for the screen and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson ; produced by Joanne Sellar, Paul Thomas Anderson, Daniel Lupi

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A down-and-out silver miner raising a son, self-made oilman Daniel Plainview has a voracious appetite for oil, and it turns him into a California tycoon in the early years of the 20th century. Getting the oil from the ground is an intensely physical process that later broadens into Plainview's equally indomitable urge to control land and power. Along the way, Plainview deals with a mighty derrick fire, a visit from a long-lost brother, the ongoing involvement of Plainview's poker-faced adoptive son, and Plainview's rivalry with Eli Sunday, the local preacher

Opening -- Daniel & H.W. -- Sunday ranch -- The gusher -- Henry Plainview -- Baptism -- Pipeline/ 1927 -- Bowling alley

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live action