Magnolia

“Things fall down. People look up. And when it rains, it pours.”

In the San Fernando Valley, a television host faces a dying father, a cocaine-addled motivational speaker hides his past, and a nurse tends to a woman in slow collapse. Paul Thomas Anderson weaves their separate stories together, each one circling the same hunger: to be forgiven, to forgive, to matter to someone. What links them is not plot but damage, and the discovery that almost everyone carries the same wound.