Magnolia (1999)

Magnolia rating: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic

IMDb8/10· 342K votes

Rotten Tomatoes82%

Metacritic78%

TMDb7.73/10· 4K votes

With 82% on Rotten Tomatoes, backed by 8/10 on IMDb and 78/100 on Metacritic, critical reception of this film has been positive.

About Magnolia

On one random day in the San Fernando Valley, a dying father, a young wife, a male caretaker, a famous lost son, a police officer in love, a boy genius, an ex-boy genius, a game show host and an estranged daughter will each become part of a dazzling multiplicity of plots, but one story.

Cast of Magnolia

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  Tom Cruise

  as Frank T.J. Mackey

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  Philip Baker Hall

  as Jimmy Gator

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  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  as Phil Parma

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  Julianne Moore

  as Linda Partridge

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  William H. Macy

  as Quiz Kid Donnie Smith

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  John C. Reilly

  as Officer Jim Kurring

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  Melora Walters

  as Claudia Wilson Gator

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  Jeremy Blackman

  as Stanley Spector

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  Jason Robards

  as Earl Partridge

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  Melinda Dillon

  as Rose Gator

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  Michael Bowen

  as Rick Spector

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  April Grace

  as Gwenovier

Magnolia facts

Budget

$37M

Box office

$48.5M

Our take on Magnolia

Paul Thomas Anderson's 1999 drama gathers a sprawling cast across a single day in the San Fernando Valley: a dying father, a young wife, a caretaker, a famous lost son, a lovelorn cop, a boy genius, a former boy genius, a game show host and an estranged daughter. Their separate lives braid into a dazzling web of storylines that ultimately cohere into one, threaded by chance, regret and the ache of reconciliation. Ambitious and emotionally raw, it's a long, operatic ensemble piece for patient viewers who love bold structure, big performances and stories about damaged people reaching, however clumsily, toward forgiveness.