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About
Freddie, 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.
Theatrical
Sep 21, 2012
Box Office
$28.3M
Budget
$32.0M
Return
0.9x
DVD / Blu-ray
Feb 26, 2013
Theaters
2
Director
Paul Thomas Anderson
Producers
Daniel Lupi, JoAnne Sellar, Paul Thomas Anderson
Music
Jonny Greenwood
Studio
Annapurna Pictures, Ghoulardi Film Company, JoAnne Sellar Productions
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Quotes
See all →Confronting Inner Fears and Identity
Lancaster Dodd
Your fear of capture and imprisonment is an implant from millions of years ago. This battle has been with you from before you know. This is not you.
[Lancaster and Freddie have been imprisoned in two separate cells, sharing a wall]
Freddie Quell
SHUT THE FUCK UP!
Lancaster Dodd
It's not you.
Freddie Quell
SHUT. THE FUCK. UP!
Lancaster Dodd
It's not you. You are asleep. Your spirit was free. Moving from body, to the next body. Free. Free for a moment. Then it was captured by an invader force, bent on turning you to the darkest way, you've been implanted with a push-pull mechanism that keeps you fearful of authority and destructive. We are in the middle of a battle that's a trillion years in the making and it's bigger than the both of us!
Freddie Quell
You're making this shit up! You make this shit up! You don't know what you're talking about!
Lancaster Dodd
I don't know what I'm talking about?
Freddie Quell
No, you don't.
Confrontation of Beliefs and Questions
John More
I belong to no club, and if you're unwilling to allow any discussion...
Lancaster Dodd
No, this isn't a discussion, it's a grilling! There's nothing I can do for you, if your mind has been made up. You seem to know the answers to your questions, why do you ask?
John More
I'm sorry you're unwilling to defend your beliefs in any kind of rational...
Lancaster Dodd
If, if you already know the answers to your questions, then why ask PIG FUCK? We are not helpless. And we are on a journey that risks the dark. If you don't mind, a good night to you.
[beat]
Exploring Hypnosis and Past Lives in Dialogue
John More
Some of this sounds quite like hypnosis. Is it not?
Lancaster Dodd
This is a process of dehypnotization, if you will. Man is asleep; this process wakes him from his slumber.
John More
I still find it difficult to see the proof with regards to past lives that your movement claims.
Lancaster Dodd
Would you care to submit yourself to processing? You'd look through the telescope, as my friend said.
John More
Perhaps another time. You've also said that these methods, Cause methods, can cure leukemia. According to your book...
Lancaster Dodd
Some forms of leukemia. In being able to access past lives we are able to treat illnesses that may have started back thousands, even trillions of years.
John More
Trillions?
Lancaster Dodd
With a T, sir.
Reflections on Love and Regret
Lancaster Dodd
Why aren't you with her?
Freddie Quell
I'm an idiot.
Lancaster Dodd
Why aren't you with the lovely girl?
Freddie Quell
I got no reason. I'm a fool.
Lancaster Dodd
Do you love Doris?
Freddie Quell
Yes.
Lancaster Dodd
Is she the love of your life?
Freddie Quell
Yes, sir.
Cast
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Joaquin Phoenix
Freddie Quell
P
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Lancaster Dodd
Amy Adams
Peggy Dodd
Rami Malek
Clark
Laura Dern
Helen Sullivan
J
Jesse Plemons
Val Dodd
A
Ambyr Childers
Elizabeth Dodd
M
Madisen Beaty
Doris Solstad
K
Kevin J. O'Connor
Bill White
P
Patty McCormack
Mildred Drummond
L
Lena Endre
Mrs. Solstad
B
Barbara Brownell
Margaret O'Brien
A
Amy Ferguson
Martha the Salesgirl
J
Jennifer Neala Page
Winn Manchester
C
Christopher Evan Welch
John More
F
Frank Bettag
Frank
M
Mimi Cozzens
Chi Chi Crawford
J
Jillian Bell
Susan Gregory
J
Joshua Close
Wayne Gregory
M
Martin Dew
Norman Conrad
