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Ambitious prospector Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day-Lewis,
in an Oscar-winning role) strikes it rich when he buys the oil rights to a California family's ranch, turns a simple village into a boomtown and stokes the ire of a charismatic young preacher (Paul Dano).
Kevin J. O'Connor,
Ciarán Hinds
and Russell Harvard
(a Deaf actor) co-star in writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson's Oscar-nominated adaptation of Upton Sinclair's novel Oil!
2007 R 158 minutes
3 stars. Pretty good but they stretched it out and the movie took forever to get anywhere. We fell asleep and had to watch the last half hour in the morning.
