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	Magnolia (movie) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Magnolia is a 1999 motion picture, written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, that tells the story of a peculiar interaction among several individuals during one apparently normal day in the San Fernando Valley, California, interweaving nine separate, yet connected storylines.
		Magnolia was self-consciously produced with heavy independent film influences, in a style quite far from what's currently common in mainstream Hollywood films —though itself being well financed by.
		Magnolia starts with an intro describing three events which set the mood for the movie by urging the audience to think about supposed coincidences which occur "all the time." The events are:
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	Magnolia (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Magnolia is a 1999 motion picture, written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, which tells the story of a peculiar interaction among several individuals during one apparently normal day in the San Fernando Valley, California.
		Interweaving nine separate yet connected storylines, Magnolia was self-consciously produced with heavy independent film influences, in a style quite far from what's currently common in mainstream Hollywood films —although it was well financed by New Line Cinema.
		The movie ends with the narrator urging the audience to think again about the coincidences mentioned in the intro, implying that the unlikely connections between the characters in the movie are similar.
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	Magnolia Review :: Hollywood.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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		In fact, "Magnolia" starts with a bravura prelude that shows three examples of truly boggling coincidences, alleged to be as true as they are strange, that took place in 1911, 1958 and the early 1980s.
		Exciting as "Magnolia" can be to watch, it wouldn't be fair to the writer-director and his considerable potential to call it completely successful.
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	Movie Review - Magnolia - eFilmCritic
		This movie was nothing more than typical Hollywood melodrama built on a somewhat promising pretense that took it to undeservingly high expectations of grandeur.
		That some idiot would even attempt to place Magnolia on the same plane as American Beauty is both ridiculous and disheartening--I weep for the lack of understanding that is all too present in society.
		That Magnolia couldn't do in three and a half hours what American Beauty did flawlessly in two is proof enough of which is the superior of the two.
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	Magnolia Movie Discussion
		Magnolia because the street that most of the action takes place in is named "magnolia".
		Magnolia might not be 8 1/2, but it's a very enjoyable and thoughtfull story told with wicked sarcasm, and hearthfelt (if mushy) sentiment.
		The magnolia flower is powerless as to whether the hand (call it "fate") touches it and as a consequence bruises it.
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	Review: Magnolia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Magnolia is a fascinating and worthwhile motion picture that manages to keep viewers interested in the plights of ten different characters for nearly its full length - right up to and through the improbable climax.
		Now, Magnolia presents a slice-of-life look at a group of characters whose fates are intertwined even though their paths don't necessarily intersect during the course of this film.
		Magnolia is a kinetic picture that doesn't stop moving and rarely stays with one story for more than a couple of minutes before moving to the next.
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	Encyclopedia: Magnolia (movie) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Magnolia was self-consciously produced with heavy independent film influences, in a style quite far from what's currently common in mainstream Hollywood films â”though itself being well financed by New Line Studios.
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		The movie then goes on to introduce the main characters: London — containing the City of London — is the capital of the United Kingdom and of England and a major world city.
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	Magnolia review
		Though he proves that over-ambition and arrogance do not always make the perfect movie, there is a magnetic pull towards these broken characters.
		As all of the characters do a big depressing sing-a-long midway through the movie and belt out "it’s not going to stop", they have no idea how right they are.
		Like a trip to the grocery store that ends up taking 17 hours, their misery just takes so long and any hope of arriving at a great final moment, of putting all of this together into something formidable, is lost.
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	Magnolia Movie Review by Anthony Leong
		Though Anderson's unconventional ensemble drama was strong on a number of fronts, which included having one of the most memorable scenes of any film this year, there were still a number of weaknesses in the script that made it a less-than-perfect film.
		Thematically, "Magnolia" is a cross between Krzysztof Kieslowski''s "Three Colors: Red" and John Sayles's "City of Hope".
		"Magnolia" is far from perfect-- rife with a number of terrific moments, this is a film that could have benefited from a tighter script, which would have made it the best film of the year.
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	filmcritic.com Movie Review: Magnolia
		Whether or not they are true (one involves the old story of a boy who attempts suicide by jumping from his roof, only to be shot in the stomach by accident on the way down, thus being murdered), they set the tone for the far more bizarre events to come.
		There's even an inexplicable moment toward the end of the movie when all the characters sing along to a song on the radio together, although none of them are in the same place.
		Magnolia rolls its opening credits to the tune of "One Is the Loneliest Number" and begins as a study of exactly that.
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	Magnolia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Boogie Nights was an electrifying movie full of dazzling photography, great performances, and scenes (such as the drug scam that goes awry) that fused the wildly comic and the intense into a hyper kind of realism that burned through the screen.
		Magnolia is an epic woven out of material that’s barely sufficient for a short story, but it lasts three hours because nothing in it is compressed.
		Magnolia’s tedium is relieved by interludes of experimental playfulness that seem like the movie’s own dream of what it might have been.
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	Magnolia (movie) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Magnolia is a 1999 independent motion picture, written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson that tells the story of a peculiar interaction among several individuals during one apparently normal day in the San Fernando Valley, California.
		Paul Thomas Anderson has stated that the screenplay was written largely around the songs of Aimee Mann, who also appears in the movie trailer.
		Magnolia starts with an intro describing three factual events which set the mood for the movie by urging the audience to think about supposed coincidences which occur "all the time".
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	The Shrubbery -- Movie Review -- Magnolia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		From the lyrics of the song opening the film through the lives of the characters, from the loneliness of unrequited desire to the ultimate solitude of death.
		The movie's second point is the inevitability of things, or perhaps the denial of chance as the explanation for amazing occurrences.
		For a movie to express the consequences of injustice during childhood, the possibility of redemption through free choice, and the inevitability of death is amazing.
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	All-Reviews.com Movie/Video Review: Magnolia
		"Magnolia" is a mind-blowing masterpiece of a movie--heavy in drama, intense emotional material, characters, and underlying themes.
		Sort of like 1999's exciting German film, "Run Lola Run," "Magnolia" seems to always be on the move from one destination to the next, with the difference being that the latter picture actually has a noticeable amount of substance to match its liberatingly flashy style.
		Instead, like Anderson's previous "Boogie Nights," "Magnolia" is a motion picture alive and well, with energy to spare, and a clear and bold signification of the pure love for the art of moviemaking.
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	Magnolia (movie) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Magnolia is a 1999 independent motion picture written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson that tells the story of a interaction among several individuals during one apparently day in the San Fernando Valley California.
		Magnolia starts with an intro describing three events which set the mood for the by urging the audience to think about coincidences which occur "all the time".
		The movie ends with the narrator urging audience to think again about the coincidences in the intro implying that the unlikely between the characters in the movie are
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	Magnolia Movie Review
		In spite of its flaws, "Magnolia" is still a very good motion picture, with a strong script by Paul Thomas Anderson and mesmerizing performances from nearly every single member of the enormous cast.
		The sprawling plot of "Magnolia" is certainly a risky undertaking, given that it is so lengthy and tackles numerous themes regarding life and its difficulties and interconnections.
		It is perhaps obligatory that when one reviews "Magnolia," one must state what he or she thought of the frogs.
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	All-Reviews.com Movie/Video Review: Magnolia
		Magnolia is a long, awkward and ambitious movie.
		The movie is filled with big themes: forgiveness, overcoming past traumas and whether love can conquer all.
		While the songs and the film share a sad, pained sensibility, Mann's songs about characters haunted by their past are over in three minutes and they have good melodies to soften their message.
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	Magnolia: Cinephiles Movie Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Magnolia is composed of one extreme situation after another, where all characters suffer from some form of personal crisis.
		Consisting of several stories which are either loosely related to each other or not at all, Magnolia provides some unity by labeling all its main episodes with titles that predict the weather forecast for the San Fernando Valley, the setting for all stories.
		Magnolia's main story revolves around the dying Earl Partridge (Jason Robards), who from his deathbed summons his nurse, Phil (Philip Seymour Hoffman) to find his lost son.
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	Don't see the Movie "Magnolia!"
		If you do manage to avoid seeing this movie, here are some of the things you will be missing--- two protracted dying scenes, with dying wishes and last-minute confessions, and how they affect the people around them.
		If you avoid this movie, you will be avoiding long, loud invective, streams of profanity and obscenity.
		Magnolia is a fine movie, and presents a number of ways one s...
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	Magnolia Movie Discussion
		This movie won some award for best ensemble cast, and that was a good call.
		So having said all that, while I may have been giving this movie a negative slant, I thought this was a mesmerising/captivating movie.
		I detect that he loathes himself or at least his past (that's why he hid it), so he is deliberately being ironic or rebellious, in having supported his sick mum until death - now deciding to do the exact opposite, and opposite of one would expect.
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	Magnolia : Movie Description, Show times & Film Critics - Ottawa - CinemaClock.com
		Magnolia has a new and and creative style which makes the audiance think, maybe that's why so many people didn't like it at all.
		Magnolia was an amazing film, and I am greatly dismayed at the number of people who professed to not understand it.
		Evidently, a movie that required intelligence and thoughtfulness to appreciate is not well-received when other, faster forms of entertainment are available.
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	A Movie Parable: Magnolia
		The movie tells multiple stories, weaving them together, or overlapping them during the course of its three hour running time.
		Oh, they may step gingerly around the splattered frog corpses littering the streets, but otherwise, the frog shower didn't seem to change their behavior or pattern of living (or dying).
		Anderson further obscures the film by incorporating a loud and intrusive sound track that often drowned out the dialogue, a character who apparently rapped a significant clue to a plot development which was completely unintelligble, and a heavy handed segment of "historical" occurances containing ironic twists which set up absolutely nothing.
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	Movie Review: Magnolia / Mountain Xpress / Asheville, NC
		Magnolia is such an amalgam of brilliance and self-indulgent crap that the dramedy may go down in history as one of the most impossible films to critique.
		Magnolia also expounds on the damage caused by child abuse, loneliness, spiritual frailty and frogs (yes, frogs).
		But, pulling up from the mire of Magnolia's multitude of messages, the film is most impressive when seen as a framework holding a host of amazing ensemble performances – most notably that of Tom Cruise, who, perhaps, delivers the most sizzling work of his career.
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	Flipside Movie Emporium: Magnolia Movie Review
		There have even been a few wonderful films, such as American Beauty and Being John Malkovich, films that possessed the capacity to stir my very soul with their warmth and ingenuity (respectively).
		And throughout the film's three hours, the audience is exposed to moments so shocking and others so touching that it can be likened to an emotional roller-coaster ride.
		It paints a portrait of life itself, and the portrait is such an exceedingly beautiful and mysterious one that I am shaken to my very foundation.
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	Magnolia Movie Review
		At one pivotal point in MAGNOLIA -- one of several pivotal points in Paul Thomas Anderson's epic of human connection and disconnection -- a woman sits alone in her apartment, singing along to a song.
		That sequence in MAGNOLIA is one of the year's best pieces of film-making, and I could name a dozen more moments from the film that will be sticking in my memory.
		MAGNOLIA plays like a cross between a symphony and a jazz jam, with solo showcases building toward splendidly edited crescendos.
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	Movie Review - Magnolia - eFilmCritic
		Magnolia is Paul Thomas Anderson's follow-up to Boogie Nights.
		The establishing sequences of Magnolia, set to Aimee Mann's haunting rendition of "One (is the loneliest number)" are exhilarating and manage to surpass Anderson's achievements in Boogie Nights.
		Magnolia sure has its moments but, like most of its fractured and stressed-out characters, the longer it goes the closer it gets to completely breaking up.
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	Magnolia : Movie Description, Show times & Film Critics - Sherbrooke - CinemaQuebec.com
		This movie is a serious one and has excellent rhythm (not a "trample" like somebody said here) At the beginnig it seems the alternate intrigues develop independently.
		The movie goes on to point out how all these totally unconnected people are going about their weird lives, without connectedness at all, until whammy, out of the blue...
		I see a lot of movies and had great expectations but in the end the director takes the audience for granted by trying to spoonfeed us at the beginning so that us morons would know it is about the connecting of random events.
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	Movie Review :: Magnolia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		If you take anything away from this movie, it would be this: don't mix stimulants and anti-depressants together, not all cops should die, and finally, when its raining frogs, get out of the open and into under some sort of cover.
		This epic 3 hour-ish movie takes place in one day, and as the irrelevant first five minutes point out, is about coincidence, chance, and irony.
		The movie is very intense if you get into it, and over all it is very depressing.
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	We Review EVERYTHING!!! - Magnolia - movie review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		You'll never know that nearly three hours have passed when the movie is over; the direction is so graceful and the performances so magnificent.
		There is so much going on that the movie never becomes boring and each character has his/her personal revelation at some point in the tale.
		Every line of dialogue is important and while each character might undergo a change or realization of their own, there is no real resolution for them as a group.
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