There Will Be Blood

Drama, Western, Crime

Daniel Day-Lewis	Plainview
Paul Dano	Eli Sunday
Kevin J. O'Connor	Henry
Ciarán Hinds	Fletcher
Dillon Freasier	H.W.
Mary Elizabeth Barrett	Fannie Clark
Colleen Foy	Mary Sunday
Hans Howes	Bandy
John Kerry	Oilman
Coco Leigh	Mrs. Bankside
Martin Stringer	Silver Assay Worker
Matthew Braden Stringer	Silver Assay Worker
Jacob Stringer	Silver Assay Worker
Joseph Mussey	Silver Assay Worker
Barry Del Sherman	H.B. Ailman
Harrison Taylor	Baby H.W. Plainview
Stockton Taylor	Baby H.W. Plainview
Paul F. Tompkins	Prescott
Ciaran Hinds

Director	Paul Thomas Anderson
Producer	David Williams; Scott Rudin; Paul Thomas Anderson; Daniel Lupi; JoAnne Sellar
Writer	Paul Thomas Anderson; Upton Sinclair
Cinematography	Robert Elswit
Musician	Jonny Greenwood

Film loosely based on Upton Sinclair's novel "Oil", this is a sprawling epic about family, greed, corruption, and the pursuit of the American dream. In the California oil fields at the turn of the 20th century, oil prospector Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day-Lewis) is a hardscrabble man who is tipped off about the possible oil strike of a lifetime. In short order he goes from wildcatter to oil baron. Coupling his fortunes and that of his son, H. W. (Russell Harvard) to this strike, he begins to amass an empire of wealth based on the black gold. But his richness comes at a price. The tip about the oil came from a preacher family who sold him the mineral rights to the land but only in return for money to be given to their church and the enigmatic child pastor Eli Sunday (Paul Dano). Though Daniel assesses Eli's preaching as that of a charlatan, nonetheless Eli serves as a mirror into Daniel's soul. Daniel begins to see the course of lies, trickery, deceit, and nihilism that his life has devolved to and begins to re-examine his place in it.