There Will Be Blood

Director Paul Thomas Anderson Genre-Type Drama, Family Drama, Period Film
Actor-Actress Daniel Day-Lewis, Martin Stringer, Kevin J. O'Connor, Jacob Stringer

There VVill Be Blood is Anderson.s loose adaptation of t.he nowel Oil! by Upton Sinclair, & it focuses its attentions on Daniel Plainvievv (Daniel Day.Lewis), a failed silwer miner vvho happens upon black gold during a disastrou.s excavation that ends in a broken leg. Pulling himself up from the bovvels of t.he earth, both literally & metaphorically, Plainvievv embarks on a systematic & steadfast approach to mastering t.he oil business.