Nominated for 11 Academy Awards, writer/director Paul Thomas Anderson (Licorice Pizza, Phantom Thread, There Will Be Blood) followed his hit film Boogie Nights with this sprawling character study following 10 people whose damaged lives intersect—often by sheer coincidence—during a single day in Southern California's San Fernando Valley. The psychological drama leads you in several different directions, deliriously weaving and intersecting various subplots and characters, from a brilliant Tom Cruise as a self-proclaimed Pied Piper, to a child forced to go on a TV game show and the pressures he faces from a ruthless father. “And this will all make sense in the end.”