There Will Be Blood (2007) February 25, 2008

There Will Be Blood is an epic saga of greed, family, religion, and the creation of modern America. Daniel Day-Lewis delivers a towering performance as Daniel Plainview, a man whose unstoppable drive and inner demons force him to destroy anyone he sees as a competitor. Loosely inspired by Upton Sinclair's novel Oil, and the real life of Edward Doheny, who started out as an itinerant prospector looking for gold and silver and became the millionaire who headed the Pan American Petroleum and Transport Company, director Paul Thomas Anderson abandons the large ensembles that distinguished his earlier works to focus on the life of a single, unforgettable character.