Director: Paul Thomas Anderson

Writer: Paul Thomas Anderson

From novel: Oil! by Upton Sinclair

Keywords: Drama

A mineral prospector's oil discovery in early-1900s Los Angeles leads to untold prosperity and strife.

ABSTRACT
Loosely adapted from Upton Sinclair's 1927 novel Oil!, There Will Be Blood is a bleak character piece about Daniel Plainview, a prospector from New Mexico whose discovery of oil in Los Angeles and ruthless methods of operation after establishing a drilling enterprise lead to copious amounts of violence and interpersonal turmoil. Successful with critics and audiences upon its release, There Will Be Blood went on to be named one of the greatest films of its decade by a panoply of mainstream publications.

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Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Paul Dano	Actor	19-Jun-1983		Little Miss Sunshine
Daniel Day-Lewis	Actor	29-Apr-1957		My Left Foot
Ciarán Hinds	Actor	9-Feb-1953		Munich
Kevin J. O'Connor	Actor	15-Nov-1963		Candy Mountain
Paul F. Tompkins	Comic	12-Sep-1968		Mr. Show

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