Silver miner Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day-Lewis) leads a hardscrabble life with his son, H.W. (Dillon Freasier). When he hears about oil oozing from the ground near the Western town of Little Boston, Daniel takes his son on a mission to find their fortune. Daniel makes his lucky strike and becomes a self-made tycoon but, as his fortune grows, he deviates into moral bankruptcy.
This 2007 drama from one of modern cinema’s leading auteurs, Paul Thomas Anderson, is a gripping, sprawling turn-of-the-century masterpiece, with towering performances from Daniel Day Lewis and Paul Dano.