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The Master (Original title)
Date: 2012 (Copyright)

Country: USA

Director: Paul Thomas Anderson

Synopsis: Drama. After the Second World War, Naval veteran Freddie returns to America in search of new answers about life, and comes to find direction in the company of Lancaster Dodd, founder, author and leader of The Cause, and of Dodd's wife Peggy.

Genre:
Drama

Subjects:
Cults, War veterans
Releases
Date: 14 September 2012Country: USARelease type: TheatricalFormat: not specified - Colour - Sound - Dolby Digital / DataSatDialogue (original): English
Date: 02 November 2012Country: United KingdomRelease type: TheatricalFormat: not specified - Colour - Sound - Dolby Digital / DataSatDialogue (original): EnglishDistributor: Entertainment Film Distributors Ltd

Credits (43)
©: Western Film Company LLC, Production Company: Ghoulardi Film Company, Production Company: Annapurna Pictures, [Produced] with the assistance of: Hawai‘i Production Tax Credits, Presents: The Weinstein Company, Executive Producer: Adam Somner, Executive Producer: Ted Schipper, Produced by: Joanne Sellar, Produced by: Daniel Lupi, Produced by: Paul Thomas Anderson, Produced by: Megan Ellison, Unit Production Manager: Will Weiske, Unit Production Manager: Daniel Lupi, Location Manager: Larry Ring, Location Manager: Matthew Riutta, Post Production Supervisor: Erica Frauman, First Assistant Director: Adam Somner, Script Supervisor: Jillian Giacomini, Casting: Cassandra Kulukundis, Written by: Paul Thomas Anderson, Director of Photography: Mihai Malaimare Jr, Camera Operator: Colin Anderson, Visual Effects by: Method Studios, Editor: Leslie Jones, Editor: Peter McNulty, Production Designer: Jack Fisk, Production Designer: David Crank, Set Designer: John P. Goldsmith, Costume Designer: Mark Bridges, Make Up Department Head: Kate Biscoe, Hair Department Head: Miia Kovero, Music by: Jonny Greenwood, Score Performed by: London Contemporary Orchestra, Conducted by: Hugh Brunt, [Production] Sound Mixer: Mark Ulano, Re-recording Mixer: Michael Semanick, Re-recording Mixer: Christopher Scarabosio, Supervising Sound Editor/Sound Design: Christopher Scarabosio, Supervising Sound Editor: Matthew Wood, Stunt Coordinator: Garret Warren, Thank You: Dylan Tichenor, Harvey Weinstein
Cast (9)
Joaquin Phoenix (Freddie Quell), Philip Seymour Hoffman (Lancater Dodd), Amy Adams (Peggy Dodd), Laura Dern (Helen Sullivan), Laura Dern (Elizabeth Dodd), Rami Malek (Clark), Jesse Plemons (Val Dodd), Kevin J. O'Connor (Bill William), Christopher Evan Welch (John More)