There Will Be Blood 2008

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There Will Be Blood: 15 (Contains strong violence)
Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Mary Barrett, Paul Dano, Dillon Freasier, Christine Olejniczak, Kevin O'Connor, Kevin Breznahan, Vince Froio, Russell Harvard, Hans Howes
Director: Paul Anderson
Producer: Scott Rudin, Eric Schlosser, JoAnne Sellar, Paul Anderson
Writer: Paul Anderson, Upton Sinclair
Duration: 02:38:00
Official Site: http://www.therewillbeblood.com
Release: Friday February 8 2008
Genre: Drama
Distributor: Walt Disney

Synopsis

Set on the incendiary frontier of California's turn-of-the-century petroleum boom, the story chronicles the rise of Daniel Plainview, 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 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.