

Magnolia
Things fall down. People look up. And when it rains, it pours.
On one random day in the San Fernando Valley, a dying father, a young wife, a male caretaker, a famous lost son, a police officer in love, a boy genius, an ex-boy genius, a game show host and an estranged daughter will each become part of a dazzling multiplicity of plots, but one story.
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $37M
- Box office
- $48.5M
- Language
- English
- dying and death
- daughter
- farewell
- regret
- unsociability
- chance
- becoming an adult
- parent child relationship
- suicide attempt
- loss of loved one
- child prodigy
- reconciliation
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Behind the camera
Director
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Produced in
United States of America
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- PremiereRWestwood, California8 Dec 1999
- Theatrical (limited)R17 Dec 1999
- TheatricalR7 Jan 2000
- PhysicalRVHS25 Jul 2000
- PhysicalRNew Line Platinum Series DVD29 Aug 2000
- PhysicalRBlu-ray19 Jan 2010
United KingdomGB
- Theatrical1817 Mar 2000
AustraliaAU
- TheatricalMA 15+9 Mar 2000
CanadaCA
- PremierePGToronto, Ontario10 Dec 1999
- TheatricalPG25 Dec 1999
BelgiumBE
- Theatrical1617 Dec 1999
BrazilBR
- Theatrical1420 Apr 2000
ChinaCN
- PremiereBeijing International Film Festival17 Apr 2026
CzechiaCZ
- Theatrical15+28 Sept 2000
EstoniaEE
- Theatrical9 Jun 2000
FinlandFI
- TheatricalK-1224 Mar 2000
FranceFR
- TheatricalTPVisa CNC 991981 Mar 2000
- TVCanal +13 Mar 2002
- TVFrance 310 Mar 2005
GermanyDE
- PremiereBerlin International Film Festival14 Feb 2000
- Theatrical1213 Apr 2000
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Magnolia was released on 17 December 1999.
Audience reviews
5- J8/10
JPV852
7/16/2022
Been a long time since I last watched this but even though this was 3 hours long, never felt the length and I was pretty much captivated throughout (although I did pause a few times to get refill on my drink or grab a snack). The performances all around were great, most notably Tom Cruise, Melora Walters, John C. Reilly and the young Jeremy Blackman (Stanley). It does get heavy-handed and while I "get" the raining fr…
- G1/10
GenerationofSwine
1/11/2023
I remember seeing this in the theater with one of my friends, during our first year in college. We had all found our way back to town and... given we lived in the sticks... we ended up going to the movies out of habit and for lack of anything else to do. And I'll be honest, at the time, I walked out of the theater kind of blown away. I hadn't really seen a movie like that before. I mean, the closest thing that …
- D10/10
Dharunn
4/19/2023
Julianne Moore at her's Peak & and also all of em. **What the Frogs!**
- B10/10
badelf
2/12/2026
Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson I'm not sure if this entire film was built around Aimee Mann's "Wise Up," or if Magnolia is really a love letter to Aimee Mann herself. What's clear is that Paul Thomas Anderson wrote his sprawling, three-hour epic with her music as the foundation. Nine original songs from Mann comprise the soundtrack, her dark, sardonic style meshing perfectly with Anderson's vision of damaged peo…
- C7/10
CinemaSerf
7/12/2026
This isn't so much a piece of cinema as a cinematographic exercise is crochet-work! There are nine folks central to it's plots - for there are at least three - yet as we progress we realise that there is a degree of integration between the characters that becomes less tangential as the stories unravel. "Jimmy" (Philip Baker Hall) has hosted a quiz series for thirty-odd years that showcases the precocious wisdom of th…
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