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Magnolia (New Line Platinum Series)
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Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 9780780631168
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Special Edition, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0780631161
Item Dimensions: 50
Label: New Line Home Video
Languages: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1English (Subtitled),
Manufacturer: New Line Home Video
MPN: DN5029D
Number Of Items: 2
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen
Publisher: New Line Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: August 29, 2000
Running Time: 188 minutes
Studio: New Line Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1999
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Editorial Review:
An intriguing and entertaining study in characters going through varying levels of crisis and introspection. This psychological drama leads you in several different directions weaving and intersecting various subplots and characters from a brilliant Tom Cruise as a self-proclaimed pied-piper to a child forced to go on a TV game show and the pressures he faces from a ruthless father.Running Time: 188 min.System Requirements:Starring: Tom Cruise Philip Baker Hall Ricky Jay Alfred Molina Jason Robards William H. Macy Julianne Moore Melinda Dillon Philip Seymour Hoffman Melora Walters John C. Reilly and Jeremy Blackman. Directed By: Paul Thomas Anderson. Running Time: 188 Min. Color. This film is presented in "Widescreen" format. Copyright 2000 Warner Home Video.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating: R UPC: 794043502927
A handful of people in the San Fernando Valley are having one hell of a day. TV mogul Earl Partridge (Jason Robards) is on his deathbed; his trophy wife (Julianne Moore) is popping pills with alarming frequency. Earl's nurse (Philip Seymour Hoffman) is trying desperately to get in touch with Earl's only son, sex guru Frank T.J. Mackey (Tom Cruise), who's about to have his carefully constructed past blown by a TV reporter (April Grace). Whiz kid Stanley (Jeremy Blackman) is being goaded by his selfish dad into breaking the record for the game show What Do Kids Know? Meanwhile, Stanley's predecessor, the grown-up quiz kid Donnie Smith (William H. Macy) has lost his job and is nursing a severe case of unrequited love. And the host of What Do Kids Know?, the affable Jimmy Gator (Philip Baker Hall), like Earl, is dying of cancer, and his attempt to reconcile with his cokehead daughter (Melora Walters) fails miserably. She, meanwhile, is running hot and cold with a cop (John C. Reilly) who would love to date her, if she can sit still for long enough. And over it all, a foreboding sky threatens to pour something more than just rain.
This third feature from Paul Thomas Anderson (Boogie Nights) is a maddening, magnificent piece of filmmaking, and it's an ensemble film to rank with the best of Robert Altman--every little piece of the film means something, and it's solidly there for a reason. Deftly juggling a breathtaking ensemble of actors, Anderson crafts a tale of neglectful parents, resentful children, and love-starved souls that's amazing in scope, both thematically and emotionally. Part of the charge of Magnolia is seeing exactly how may characters Anderson can juggle, and can he keep all those balls in air (indeed he can, even if it means throwing frogs into the mix). And it's been far too long since we've seen a filmmaker whose love of making movies is so purely joyful, and this electric energy is reflected in the actors, from Cruise's revelatory performance to Reilly's quietly powerful turn as the moral center of the story. While at three hours it's definitely not suited to everyone's taste, Magnolia is a compelling, heartbreaking, ultimately hopeful mediation on the accidents of chance that make up our lives. Featuring eight wonderful songs by Aimee Mann, including "Save Me." --Mark Englehart
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - the darkside
it is the bitter end of coffee - it is the twisted dark side of life - it is a masterpiece - I have watched it about a dozen times and everytime it brings home a new meaning. It is probably one of those rare movies where all the actors and actresses gave their life time best performance - specially Tom Cruise. It is about life - it is about our life - it is about my life - we build things and then they fall apart and we cry - we look for help and sometimes we get that help. If you ever have had a ... Read More
Rating:  - Long, dark and depressing
Looking at the summary of reviews here on Amazon, it is clear that this is a "love it or hate it" movie. I don't fall completely into either of those camps, but I thought the director was trying WAY too hard to be arty, avant-garde and mysterious. There are too many balls in the air, and for the first half of this three-hour movie the plot lines seem totally unrelated. Tom Cruise is wonderful as the smarmy "seduce and destroy" seminar leader, until the deathbed scene near the end, when he goes right ... Read More
Rating: - movie
funny how 9 years ago, when the movie first came out.I did'nt care for the movie at all.I liked Tom Cruise,that was the draw to the movie.But now 9 years later, I watched the movie again,and this time I have to say that I liked it.I still don't understand the frog scenes.
Rating: - An excellent and well managed ensemble film, very worth seeing, but I wish Anderson would have edited his material differently
P.T. Anderson's 1999 film MAGNOLIA is one heck of an ensemble drama. Its main characters include a dying television executive (Jason Robards), his nurse (Philip Seymour Hoffman), his wife (Julianne Moore), a LAPD police officer (John C. Reilly), a game show host (Philip Baker Hall), his coked-up daughter (Melora Walters), a sleazy "how to score with women" guru (Tom Cruise, in the best performance of his career), a child prodigy (Jeremy Blackman), and a former child prodigy (William H. Macy). Over the ... Read More
Rating: - A Game Of Psychological Pick-Up Sticks
"Magnolia" is the kind of film I instinctively respond to. Leave logic at the door. Do not expect subdued taste and restraint, but instead a kind of operatic ecstasy. At three hours it is even operatic in length, as its themes unfold, its characters strive against the dying of the light, and the great wheel of chance rolls on toward them." Roger Ebert
Eleven people caught in LA who's lives intertwine during the film. A film of such magnitude that I had to stop and try to put pieces together. ... Read More
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