PHILLIP BAKER HALL/JOHN C REILLY
PHILLIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN IN A SCENE STEALING CAMEO
Hey all - Happy Thanksgiving 😊 hope u watch a lot of 🎬 movies, here's an oft overlooked gem from P T Anderson's impressive canon of work. A lot of these actors went on to work with him on multiple films 🎥 except maybe Gwyneth Paltrow who is actually great in this. I don't care what anyone says, the girl can act!
Phillip Baker Hall plays Sydney, a sort of mysterious angel here on earth 🌎 kind of loner who picks up John (John C Reilly) a destitute gambler and offers to drive him back to Vegas , loan him fifty dollars 💸 and show him how to parlay it into a lot more. I won't spoil the rest but let's just say a lot of the quirky 🤪 characters, their choices and the predicaments they ultimately find themselves in foreshadows both Boogie Nights and Magnolia.
I'm a huge fan but must admit I haven't been too happy with most of the stuff from The Master forward and as brilliantly gifted Anderson is, he seems to have lost the charm of his earlier films or at least traded some of it in for bigger set pieces. If you're a fan of that earlier work then this is a must see, a John The Baptist if you will of what was to come. 3.75 stars/5
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