A Day in the Life of L.A.: Where’s the Rough Stuff?
Paul Thomas Anderson’s Magnolia deals with a dozen or more dysfunctional denizens of the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles through a day of decisive confrontations. Earl Partridge (Jason Robards), a dying cancer patient, wishes to be reconciled with his alienated son, Frank T.J. Mackey (Tom Cruise), a television misogynist who instructs supposedly oppressed males Read More
