The Master

Showed at Images 10/26/2012–11/1/2012

Starring: Joaquin Phoenix, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams

A 1950s-set drama centered on the relationship between a charismatic intellectual known as "the Master" whose faith-based organization begins to catch on in America, and a young drifter who becomes his right-hand man.

  • Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
  • Rating: R
  • Runtime: 2 hours 17 minutes
  • Genre: Drama

“One of the great movies of the year - an ambitious, challenging, and creatively hot-blooded but cool toned project that picks seriously at knotty ideas about American personality, success, rootlessness, master-disciple dynamics, and father-son mutually assured destruction.”

– Entertainment Weekly