The Master

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(2012)

Genre: Drama

Director: Paul Thomas Anderson

Writer: Paul Thomas Anderson

Producers: Paul Thomas Anderson, Megan Ellison, Daniel Lupi, Ted Schipper, JoAnne Sellar, Adam Somner

   

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Synopsis: A striking portrait of drifters and seekers in post World War II America, Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master unfolds the journey of a Naval veteran (Joaquin Phoenix) who arrives home from war unsettled and uncertain of his future - until he is tantalized by The Cause and its charismatic leader (Philip Seymour Hoffman). -- (Written by The Weinstein Company)

Cast:

• Joaquin Phoenix
• Philip Seymour Hoffman
• Amy Adams
• Laura Dern

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Return to Paradise

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(1998)

Genre: Drama

Director: Joseph Ruben

Writer: Pierre Jovilet, Olivier Schatzky, Wesley Strick, Bruce Robinson

Producers: David Arnold, Alain Bernheim, Lashan Browning, Steve Golin, Ezra Swerdlow

Synopsis: Rambling around Asia, getting high and just having a good time, are three young men -- Sheriff (Vince Vaughn), Lewis (Joaquin Phoenix), and Tony (David Conrad). Sheriff and Tony say goodbye to Lewis, a conscientious Greenpeace activist and nature-lover who stays on to rescue endangered Borneo orangutans. Two years later, Tony is an architect about to marry, and Sheriff has a job driving a limo around New York City. When Beth (Anne Heche) steps into Sheriff's limo, she tells him that she's a lawyer working to save Lewis. He learns that Lewis was arrested by Malaysian authorities, tried as a drug dealer, convicted, and sentenced to death. (Written by Bhob Stewart)

Cast:

• Vince Vaughn
• Anne Heche
• Joaquin Phoenix
• David Conrad
• Vera Farmiga
• Jada Pinkett Smith

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I'm Still Here

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(2010)

Genre: Documentary

Director: Casey Affleck

Writer: Casey Affleck, Joaquin Phoenix

Synopsis: In 2008 while rehearsing for a charity event, actor Joaquin Phoenix, with Casey Affleck's camera watching, tells people he's quitting to pursue a career in rap music. Over the next year, we watch the actor write, rehearse, and perform to an audience. He importunes Sean Combs in hopes he'll produce the record. We see the actor in his home: he parties, smokes, bawls out his two-man entourage, talks philosophy with Affleck, and comments on celebrity. (Written by IMDb Editors)

Cast:

• Joaquin Phoenix

 

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(1997)

Genre: Drama/Thriller

Director: Oliver Stone

Writer: John Ridley

Synopsis: When Bobby's car breaks down in the desert while on the run from some of the bookies who have already taken two of his fingers, he becomes trapped in the nearby small town where the people are stranger than anyone he's encountered. After becoming involved with a (unbeknownst to him) young married woman, her husband hires Bobby to kill her. Later, she hires Bobby to kill the husband. (Written by Jason Ihle)

Cast:

• Sean Penn
• Jennifer Lopez
• Nick Nolte
• Claire Danes
• Joaquin Phoenix
• Billy Bob Thornton
• Bo Hopkins
• Liv Tyler (cameo)

 

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