Master, The

Superb acting and cinematography highlight Paul Thomas Anderson's unusual, captivating, discussion-provoking, 137-minute film in which a charismatic, philosophy-spewing, smarmy, Scientology-like leader (Philip Seymour Hoffman) of "The Cause," who has a devoted pregnant wife (Amy Adams) and a young daughter, a look-a-like son (Jesse Plemons), and an adult daughter (Ambyr Childers) whom he marries to her fiancée (Rami Malek) onboard a yacht, takes a rabble-rousing, sex-obsessed, mentally unstable, erratic, alcoholic, former WWII sailor (Joaquin Phoenix) under his wing during the 1950s, who then ends up becoming his right-hand man as they travel from San Francisco to Manhattan, Philadelphia, Phoenix, and eventually to England along with many of his devoted followers (Laura Dern, Barlow Jacobs, Christine Ames, Martin Dew, Joshua Close, Kevin J. O'Connor, Barbara Brownell, Brady Rubin, Jill Andre, et al.).
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