The Master
- Release Date
- September 7, 2012
- Director
- Paul Thomas Anderson
- Cast
- Joaquin Phoenix , Price Carson , Mike Howard , Sarah Shoshana David , Bruce Goodchild , Matt Hering
- Runtime
- 137
- Main Genre
- Drama
- Writers
- Paul Thomas Anderson
- Tagline
- Written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson
- Website
- http://www.themasterfilm.com/
Summary
Universal Pictures period drama to star Philip Seymour Hoffman as a founder of a new religious organization in the 1950s. Hoffman would play "the Master," as in "master of ceremonies," a charismatic intellectual who hatches a faith-based organization that begins to catch on in America in 1952. The core is the relationship between the Master and Freddie, a twentysomething drifter who becomes the leader's lieutenant. As the faith begins to gain a fervent following, Freddie finds himself questioning the belief system he has embraced, and his mentor.
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