The Master

Paul Thomas Anderson·138 min

Two men adrift in postwar America: Freddie Quell, a feral, drink-wrecked veteran, and Lancaster Dodd, the silver-tongued founder of a movement modeled on early Scientology. Their meeting is less a plot than a collision.

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