Things fall down. People look up. And when it rains, it pours.
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.
Dramadying and deathdaughterfarewellregretunsociabilitychancebecoming an adultparent child relationshipsuicide attemptloss of loved onechild prodigyreconciliation
- Suicide or self-harm
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Character
Overwhelming, contemporary, prestige and meticulous.
- cooloverwhelming
- contemporarynostalgic
- unpretentiousprestige
- rawmeticulous
- gravecomic
Who loves it, who doesn't
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Cast
- Tom CruiseFrank T.J. Mackey
- Philip Baker HallJimmy Gator
- Philip Seymour HoffmanPhil Parma
- Julianne MooreLinda Partridge
- William H. MacyQuiz Kid Donnie Smith
- John C. ReillyOfficer Jim Kurring
- Melora WaltersClaudia Wilson Gator
- Jeremy BlackmanStanley Spector
- Jason RobardsEarl Partridge
- Melinda DillonRose Gator
Crew
- Paul Thomas AndersonDirector
- Paul Thomas AndersonWriter
- Robert ElswitDirector of Photography
- Jon BrionOriginal Music Composer
- Dylan TichenorEditor
- JoAnne SellarProducer
- Paul Thomas AndersonProducer
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Pairings
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Similar in taste
Closest on the same fourteen dimensions, from everything scored on Curator Co. Other media included when they land close.
Mulholland Drive 200173% alikeBoth prestige, contemporary, overwhelming.
Dancer in the Dark 200070% alikeBoth overwhelming, prestige, contemporary; this one is more intimate.
Synecdoche, New York 200870% alikeBoth contemporary, prestige, overwhelming.
21 Grams 200366% alikeBoth contemporary, grave, overwhelming.
Lost Highway 199764% alikeBoth prestige, overwhelming, contemporary.
Dogville 200363% alikeBoth overwhelming, prestige, grave.
Apocalypse Now 197963% alikeBoth overwhelming, prestige, meticulous; this one is more nostalgic.
A Scanner Darkly 200661% alikeBoth contemporary, grave.- To Pimp a Butterfly 201573% alikeAlbum · Both overwhelming, meticulous, prestige.
- Lemonade 201667% alikeAlbum · Both overwhelming, contemporary, meticulous.
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