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The Master
The Master-poster
3 Nominations
Year 2012
Director Paul Thomas Anderson
Writer Paul Thomas Anderson
Starring Joaquin Phoenix, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams
85th Academy Awards

The Master is a 2012 drama film written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. The film follows a Naval veteran who arrives home from war unsettled and uncertain of his future until he is tantalized by The Cause and its charismatic leader.

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Set in America in the years following World War II, a charismatic intellectual launches a faith-based organization and taps a young drifter as his right-hand man. But as the faith begins to gain a fervent following, the onetime vagabond finds himself questioning the belief system he has embraced, and his mentor.

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