Earl asks Phil to find his estranged son, Frank Mackey, a motivational speaker peddling a pick-up artist course to men. Earl's trophy wife, Linda, collects his prescriptions for morphine while he is cared for by a nurse, Phil Parma. The show's former producer, Earl Partridge, is also dying of cancer. He hatches a plan to get back at his boss by stealing the money he needs for his braces. He is obsessed with getting oral surgery, thinking he will land the man of his dreams after he gets braces. Donnie's parents spent the money he won as a child, and he has been fired from his job at Solomon & Solomon, an electronics store, due to chronic lateness and poor sales. But after Stanley's father berates him for freezing on air, Stanley refuses to return for the final round.ĭonnie Smith, a former What Do Kids Know? champion, watches the show from a bar. As the show continues an inebriated Jimmy sickens, and he orders the show to go on after he collapses onstage. When the show resumes, he wets himself and freezes, humiliated when everyone realizes what happened. He is hounded by his father for the prize money and demeaned by the surrounding adults, who refuse to let him use the bathroom during a commercial break.
That night the newest child prodigy on the show, Stanley Spector, takes the lead as the show begins. Jimmy hosts a long-running quiz show called What Do Kids Know? and is dying of cancer he has only a few months to live. He asks her on a date that night she says yes. Unaware of her addiction, Jim is attracted to her and prolongs the visit. Claudia's neighbors called the police after she had an argument with her estranged father, children's game show host Jimmy Gator, and then blasted music while snorting cocaine. Jim goes to the apartment of Claudia Wilson. Dixon, a neighborhood boy, tries to tell him who committed the murder but Jim is dismissive. Police officer Jim Kurring investigates a disturbance at a woman's apartment, finding a body in a closet. The narrator recounts three instances of incredible coincidences and suggests that forces greater than chance play important roles in life.
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That Magnolia is, for better or worse, the best movie I'll ever make." Following the film's release, Anderson said: "I really feel. The film also won the Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival. Of the ensemble cast, Tom Cruise was nominated for Best Supporting Actor at the 72nd Academy Awards, and won the award in that category at the Golden Globes of 2000.
Magnolia received positive reviews, with critics praising its acting, direction, storytelling, ambition, and its soundtrack, largely consisting of Aimee Mann songs however, some deemed it overlong and melodramatic. Reilly, Jason Robards and Melora Walters, and is a mosaic of interrelated characters in search of happiness, forgiveness and meaning in the San Fernando Valley. Macy, Alfred Molina, Julianne Moore, John C. The film stars Jeremy Blackman, Tom Cruise, Melinda Dillon, Philip Baker Hall, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ricky Jay, William H. Magnolia is a 1999 American ensemble drama film written, co-produced and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson.
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