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7.1Freddie, a volatile, heavy-drinking veteran who suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder, finds some semblance of a family when he stumbles onto the ship of Lancaster Dodd, the charismatic leader of a new "religion" he forms after World War II.
Cast
- Joaquin Phoenix as Freddie Quell
- Philip Seymour Hoffman as Lancaster Dodd
- Amy Adams as Peggy Dodd
- Rami Malek as Clark
- Laura Dern as Helen Sullivan
- Jesse Plemons as Val Dodd
Themes
- post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd)
- sexual obsession
- religion
- drifter
- alcoholic
- handjob
- post war
- cult leader
- scientology
- religious cult
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Paul Thomas Anderson
- Written by
- Paul Thomas Anderson
- Produced by
- JoAnne Sellar Daniel Lupi Paul Thomas Anderson Megan Ellison
- Starring
- Joaquin Phoenix Philip Seymour Hoffman Amy Adams Laura Dern
- Cinematography
- Mihai Mălaimare Jr.
- Edited by
- Leslie Jones Peter McNulty
- Music by
- Jonny Greenwood
- Production companies
- JoAnne Sellar Productions Ghoulardi Film Company Annapurna Pictures
- Distributed by
- The Weinstein Company
- Release dates
- September 1, 2012 ( 2012-09-01 ) ( Venice ) September 14, 2012 ( 2012-09-14 ) (United States)
- Running time
- 137 minutes
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Budget
- $32 million
- Box office
- $28.3 million
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Wikidata facts
- Duration
- 138
- FilmAffinity ID
- 112983
- Official website
- www.themasterfilm.com
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- publication date
- 2013-03-20
- title
- The Master
- capital cost
- 35000000
- box office
- 28200000
- review score
- 86/100
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The Master is a 2012 American period psychological drama film written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson and starring Joaquin Phoenix, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Amy Adams. It tells the story of Freddie Quell (Phoenix), a World War II Navy veteran struggling to adjust to a post-war society, who meets Lancaster Dodd (Hoffman), the leader of a cult known as The Cause. Dodd sees something in Quell and accepts him into the movement. Quell takes a liking to The Cause and begins traveling with Dodd's family to spread his teachings.
The film was produced by Annapurna Pictures and Ghoulardi Film Company and distributed by The Weinstein Company. The film's inspirations were varied: it was partly inspired by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard, early drafts of Anderson's There Will Be Blood, the novel V. by Thomas Pynchon, John Huston's documentary Let There Be Light about WWII veterans with PTSD, drunken Navy stories that Jason Robards had told to Anderson while filming Magnolia, and the life story of author John Steinbeck. The Master was shot almost entirely on 65 mm film stock, making it the first fiction feature to be shot and released in 70mm since Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet in 1996.