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Magnolia is a 1999 motion picture, written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, which tells the story of a peculiar interaction among several individuals during one apparently normal day in the San Fernando Valley, California. Interweaving nine separate yet connected storylines, Magnolia was self-consciously produced with heavy independent film influences, in a style quite far from what's currently common in mainstream Hollywood films —although it was well financed by New Line Cinema. The length of the film also defied convention at 188 minutes (3^h:08^m).

It featured an ensemble cast of Julianne Moore, Jason Robards, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Tom Cruise, Luis Guzmán, Philip Baker Hall, April Grace, Ricky Jay, Orlando Jones, William H. Macy, Alfred Molina, Jeremy Blackman, Michael Murphy, John C. Reilly, Melinda Dillon, Melora Walters, Michael Bowen, Thomas Jane and Felicity Huffman. Cruise was nominated for best supporting actor in the Academy Awards and won the award in the same category at the Golden Globes of 2000. Robards was memorable as an elderly invalid, dying at home in bed.

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Magnolia starts with an intro describing three events which set the mood for the movie by urging the audience to think about supposed coincidences which occur "all the time." The events are: # Sir Edmund William Godfrey, a resident of Greenberry Hill, London, U.K, is murdered by three vagrants by the names Joseph Green, Stanley Berry, and Daniel Hill. Based on the murder of Edmund Berry Godfrey. # A scuba diver, Delmer Darion, dies of a heart attack when he is accidentally picked up by a fire fighting airplane scooping water to put out a forest fire. The pilot of the plane, Craig Hansen, had met Darion a few days prior at the casino where he worked as a blackjack dealer, and had started a fight with him. The guilt and the measure of coincidence caused the pilot to commit suicide. # A 17 year old boy, Sydney Barringer, whose attempted suicide by jumping off the roof of his apartment building became a "successful homicide" when he was accidentally shot by his mother as he fell past his own apartment window. His parents regularly argued and threatened each other with a shotgun, which was not normally kept loaded. Sydney had loaded the gun a few days prior so that his parents would make good on their threats to kill each other, and in doing so, unwittingly became an accomplice in his own murder.

The movie then goes on to introduce the main characters:

Frank T.J. Mackey (Tom Cruise
), author of "Seduce and Destroy," a self-help system for men to get women to sleep with them.
Linda Partridge (Julianne Moore
), a woman dealing with her husband's terminal illness and feelings of guilt for her infidelity.
"Quiz Kid" Donnie Smith (William H. Macy
), who won a large sum of money on the television game show What Do Kids Know? in the 1960s, but whose life has gone downhill since then.
Stanley Spector (Jeremy Blackman), a current contestant on What Do Kids Know?
Phil Parma (Philip Seymour Hoffman
), a nurse working for the terminally ill Earl Partridge.
Claudia Wilson Gator (Melora Walters
), who is independently wealthy, plagued by psychological problems, and addicted to cocaine; daughter of Jimmy Gator.
Jimmy Gator (Philip Baker Hall
), host of What Do Kids Know?.
Earl Partridge (Jason Robards
), a wealthy television producer with terminal lung cancer.
Officer Jim Kurring (John C. Reilly
), a divorced and lonely police officer.
Dixon (Emmanuel L. Johnson), an African American kid who raps and is the son of "The Worm."

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