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The AllStarCast includes Cruise (Frank T.J. Mackey, producer of really sleazy pick-up-artist tapes), Creator/JohnCReilly (Jim, an LAPD beat cop), Creator/JasonRobards in his last role (Earl Partridge, dying of cancer), Creator/JulianneMoore (Earl's wife Linda), Creator/PhillipSeymourHoffman (Earl's hospice nurse Phil), Phillip Baker Hall (Jimmy Gator, host of TV quiz show "What Do Kids Know?"), Melora Hardin (Claudia, Jimmy's troubled daughter), and Creator/WilliamHMacy (Donnie Smith, former champion of the show 30 years ago). A 30-year-old Creator/PattonOswalt appears as Delmer the blackjack dealer in one of the opening vignettes.
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The AllStarCast includes Cruise (Frank T.J. Mackey, producer of really sleazy pick-up-artist tapes), Creator/JohnCReilly (Jim, an LAPD beat cop), Creator/JasonRobards in his last role (Earl Partridge, dying of cancer), Creator/JulianneMoore (Earl's wife Linda), Creator/PhillipSeymourHoffman (Earl's hospice nurse Phil), Phillip Baker Hall (Jimmy Gator, host of TV children's quiz show "What Do Kids Know?"), Melora Hardin (Claudia, Jimmy's troubled daughter), and Creator/WilliamHMacy (Donnie Smith, former champion of the show 30 years ago).ago), and Jeremy Blackman (Stanley Spector, current champion of the show). A 30-year-old Creator/PattonOswalt appears as Delmer the blackjack dealer in one of the opening vignettes.
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The AllStarCast includes Cruise (Frank T.J. Mackey, producer of really sleazy pick-up-artist tapes), Creator/JohnCReilly (Jim, an LAPD beat cop), Creator/JasonRobards in his last role (Earl Partridge, dying of cancer), Creator/JulianneMoore (Earl's wife Linda), Creator/PhillipSeymourHoffman (Earl's hospice nurse Phil), Phillip Baker Hall (Jimmy Gator, host of TV quiz show "What Do Kids Know?"), Melora Hardin (Claudia, Jimmy's troubled daughter), and Creator/WilliamHMacy (Donnie Smith, former champion of the show 30 years ago). A 30-year-old Creator/PattonOswalt appears as Delmer the blackjack dealer in one of the opening vignettes.
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* GloryDays: [[FormerChildStar Quiz Kid]] Donnie Smith's childhood stardom.
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* GloryDays: [[FormerChildStar Quiz Kid]] Donnie Smith's childhood stardom.GetOut: A very dramatic incidence of this when Claudia screamingly evicts her estranged father from her apartment who came to tell her about his terminal cancer. Her overreaction is puzzling until we learn that [[spoiler:she was molested by her father when she was young]].
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* JerkAss: Frank T. J. Mackey and Rick Spector.
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* NiceGuy: Jim Kurring and Phil Pharma.
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* PromotionToParent: Stanley, hurrying to get ready for school, reminds his father they're out of dog food: promptly--and almost imperceptibly--establishing which member of the Spector household is fully-engaged and responsible. In the green room--after the on-air meltdown of the show's host, and its brightest contestant--Daddy throws a tantrum (and a chair). Role reversal complete: as a parent, Rick has been [[DisappearedDad invisible]].
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* SenseiForScoundrels: Frank T.J. Mackey.
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* BodyInABreadbox: The dead guy in the closet.
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* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: See ThisIsThePartWhere.
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* IThoughtThatWas: It's not about flowers.
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* DeusExMachina: [[spoiler:The plague of frogs]]. Is also WeatherDissonance.
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* CrapsackWorld
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** Apparently the powers that be weren't aware of the Biblical connections to the rain of frogs. Once they were informed, they decided to sneak in the 8 and 2 references all over the place.
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** Apparently the powers Reportedly, director P.T. Anderson was unaware that be weren't the story of frogs falling from the sky is in the Bible (he took it from Charles Fort's writing) when he wrote the screenplay. The Bible story of the plague of frogs was brought to his attention by Henry Gibson prior to filming. After he became aware of the Biblical connections to the rain of frogs. Once they were informed, they decided to sneak in the 8 and 2 story, Anderson worked references all over to Exodus 8:2 into the place.movie.
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* CreatorCameo: P.T. Anderson is a member of the "What Do Kids Know?" crew.
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* CreatorCameo: P.T. Anderson is a member of the "What Do Kids Know?" crew. He can be seen immediately after the start of the show confiscating an "Exodus 8:2" sign from a member of the audience.
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* UrbanLegends: No, the three anecdotes that open the movie are not true stories. The last anecdote, about the man shot while jumping off the roof of a building, was also used in ''Series/HomicideLifeOnTheStreet'', and is also apparently used as a test case in criminal law classes.
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* UrbanLegends: No, the The three anecdotes that open the movie are not true stories. The last anecdote, about the man shot while jumping off the roof of a building, was also used in ''Series/HomicideLifeOnTheStreet'', and is also apparently used as a test case in criminal law classes.
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* ArcNumber: The numbers 8 and 2 often in conjunction, leading to a quote of [[Literature/TheBible Exodus 8:2]] and the plague of frogs it describes.
* ArcSymbol: Almost every location contains at least one picture or painting of a magnolia.
* ArcSymbol: Almost every location contains at least one picture or painting of a magnolia.
* AteHisGun: The aircraft pilot in the prologue.
* CompartmentShot: Donnie's face over the opening his company's safe.
* DiscreetDrinkDisposal: Jim praises Claudia's coffee only to dump the content of his cup into the sink while she is not looking.
* DrivenToSuicide: The boy in the prologue as well as Linda who couldn't bear the guilt about her infidelity.
* DrivenToSuicide: The boy in the prologue as well as Linda who couldn't bear the guilt about her infidelity.
* FlippingTheTable: Frank does this on stage in anger over the interview he just came out of.
* GoodbyeCruelWorld: In the prologue, the boy committing suicide by jumping off a building had a suicide letter in his pocket.
* HollywoodLaw: In-universe: in the urban legend about the son shot by his mother while leaping from the roof in a suicide attempt, the narrator says that the mother was charged with murder. However, without the requisite intent, the appropriate charge would be manslaughter.
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* HollywoodLaw: In-universe: in InterruptedSuicide:
** Jimmy Gator attempts to shoot himself, only to be stopped by theurban legend about the son shot by plague of frogs. One lands on his mother while leaping from the roof in a gun, making him misfire.
** Linda's suicideattempt, attempt is foiled by the narrator says that young boy calling the mother was charged ambulance.
* IrisOut: The movie starts withmurder. However, without an Iris In as part of the requisite intent, [[{{Retraux}} vintage look]] of the appropriate charge would be manslaughter.silent movie footage.
** Jimmy Gator attempts to shoot himself, only to be stopped by the
** Linda's suicide
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* JustKeepDriving: When the frogs start falling from the sky, none of the vehicles in the movie stop driving leading to two accidents. Played particularly straight with the ambulance that goes on an on until it finally tips over. Justified in the case of Jim who keeps driving to reach the burgler he just saw on the side of the street.
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* MarriageBeforeRomance: Played for drama as Linda married her much older husband Earl [[GoldDigger purely for money]], and only realises that she's genuinely fallen in love with him when he's in the final stages of cancer and too out of it for her to explain it to him. The combination of grief, and guilt over her earlier unfeeling treatment of him, [[DrivenToSuicide drives her to a suicide attempt]] which ultimately fails.
* MaybeEverAfter: It's not at all guaranteed that Jim and Claudia will have a successful (or even long-term) relationship, especially given her cocaine addiction. But it is fairly certain that they will try.
* MaybeEverAfter: It's not at all guaranteed that Jim and Claudia will have a successful (or even long-term) relationship, especially given her cocaine addiction. But it is fairly certain that they will try.
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* SinsOfOurFathers: Donnie quotes this passage from [[Literature/TheBible Exodus 20:5]] when mulling over his miserable life after being wronged by his parents.
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* SpitefulSpit: Frank Mackey symbolically spits onto the journalist at the end of their interview as he got fed up with her poking in his DarkAndTroubledPast.
* TantrumThrowing: Stanley's father throws a chair across the room in anger over seeing his son chickening out of the one-on-one challenge.
* TantrumThrowing: Stanley's father throws a chair across the room in anger over seeing his son chickening out of the one-on-one challenge.
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* WhipPan: It's used to great effect in the trailer. The actual movie uses it in the scene where Phil and Earl are introduced.
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* AllThereInTheScript: Along with the scenes further explaining The Worm, there were many other scenes and dialogue exchanges included in the script but not used for the final film, including:
** A scene in which Jimmy talks with Paula, the dancer he is sleeping with in the opening credits.
** Extended dialogue between Gwenovier and Frank, about "Subjective human experience and terrible things", which was referenced in the final cut but not shown.
** A brief dialogue between Jim and Claudia after he asks her on a date, in which they both find they have the same favorite restaurant.
** We see what happens to Stanley between the events of that day's game show, and him talking to his sleeping father.
** Further explanation during Earl's monologue concerning the reasons why he mistreated his first wife.
** The tone of Frank's confrontation with his father is considerably different, with him showing less hostility, more genuine sympathy and concern, and attempting to wake him up.
** It is made clear in the script that Jimmy doesn't survive the fire in his house caused by the destroyed television.
** We see Marcie's confession for what happened to the "guy in the closet".
** A scene in which Jimmy talks with Paula, the dancer he is sleeping with in the opening credits.
** Extended dialogue between Gwenovier and Frank, about "Subjective human experience and terrible things", which was referenced in the final cut but not shown.
** A brief dialogue between Jim and Claudia after he asks her on a date, in which they both find they have the same favorite restaurant.
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** Further explanation during Earl's monologue concerning the reasons why he mistreated his first wife.
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* OneWordTitle: The title is ''Magnolia'', referring to the flower, which has many petals going off in different directions, but which are all connected in the back, and the film has [[HyperlinkStory the characters link together in one way or another]].
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A 1999 drama film about dysfunctional people in Los Angeles, with LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters (as the page quote illustrates), written and directed by Creator/PaulThomasAnderson (''Film/BoogieNights'', ''Film/ThereWillBeBlood'') and partly inspired by the songs of ''Aimee Mann''. Told in a series of [[HyperlinkStory interlocking stories]]. Known for being over three hours long, and for [[GainaxEnding possibly the most non-sequitur third-act twist of all time]], as well as for getting an Oscar Nomination for Creator/TomCruise.
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A 1999 drama film about dysfunctional people in Los Angeles, with LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters (as the page quote illustrates), written and directed by Creator/PaulThomasAnderson (''Film/BoogieNights'', ''Film/ThereWillBeBlood'') and partly inspired by the songs of ''Aimee Mann''.Aimee Mann. Told in a series of [[HyperlinkStory interlocking stories]]. Known for being over three hours long, and for [[GainaxEnding possibly the most non-sequitur third-act twist of all time]], as well as for getting an Oscar Nomination for Creator/TomCruise.
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* SmashToBlack: The ending. Perfectly timed with the big guitar lick in Aimee Mann song "Save Me".
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** We see what happens to Stanley between the events of that day's game show, and him talking to his sleeping father. - Further explanation during Earl's monologue concerning the reasons why he mistreated his first wife.
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* AllThereInTheScript: Along with the scenes further explaining The Worm, there were many other scenes and dialogue exchanges included in the script but not used for the final film, including:
** A scene in which Jimmy talks with Paula, the dancer he is sleeping with in the opening credits.
** Extended dialogue between Gwenovier and Frank, about "Subjective human experience and terrible things", which was referenced in the final cut but not shown.
** A brief dialogue between Jim and Claudia after he asks her on a date, in which they both find they have the same favorite restaurant.
** We see what happens to Stanley between the events of that day's game show, and him talking to his sleeping father. - Further explanation during Earl's monologue concerning the reasons why he mistreated his first wife.
** The tone of Frank's confrontation with his father is considerably different, with him showing less hostility, more genuine sympathy and concern, and attempting to wake him up.
** It is made clear in the script that Jimmy doesn't survive the fire in his house caused by the destroyed television.
** We see Marcie's confession for what happened to the "guy in the closet".
** A scene in which Jimmy talks with Paula, the dancer he is sleeping with in the opening credits.
** Extended dialogue between Gwenovier and Frank, about "Subjective human experience and terrible things", which was referenced in the final cut but not shown.
** A brief dialogue between Jim and Claudia after he asks her on a date, in which they both find they have the same favorite restaurant.
** We see what happens to Stanley between the events of that day's game show, and him talking to his sleeping father. - Further explanation during Earl's monologue concerning the reasons why he mistreated his first wife.
** The tone of Frank's confrontation with his father is considerably different, with him showing less hostility, more genuine sympathy and concern, and attempting to wake him up.
** It is made clear in the script that Jimmy doesn't survive the fire in his house caused by the destroyed television.
** We see Marcie's confession for what happened to the "guy in the closet".
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A 1999 drama film about dysfunctional people in Los Angeles, with LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters (as the page quote illustrates), written and directed by Creator/PaulThomasAnderson (''Film/BoogieNights'', ''Film/ThereWillBeBlood'') and partly inspired by the songs of Music/AimeeMann.''Aimee Mann''. Told in a series of [[HyperlinkStory interlocking stories]]. Known for being over three hours long, and for [[GainaxEnding possibly the most non-sequitur third-act twist of all time]], as well as for getting an Oscar Nomination for Creator/TomCruise.
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* RecycledSoundtrack: AimeeMann's "Wise Up" was originally written for ''JerryMaguire'', and several of the other songs were meant for her album ''Bachelor No. 2'', which was recorded before the movie but due to record-company problems not released until afterwards.
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* RecycledSoundtrack: AimeeMann's Aimee Mann's "Wise Up" was originally written for ''JerryMaguire'', and several of the other songs were meant for her album ''Bachelor No. 2'', which was recorded before the movie but due to record-company problems not released until afterwards.
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A 1999 drama film about dysfunctional people in Los Angeles, with LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters (as the page quote illustrates), written and directed by Creator/PaulThomasAnderson (''Film/BoogieNights'', ''Film/ThereWillBeBlood'') and partly inspired by the songs of Aimee Mann.Music/AimeeMann. Told in a series of [[HyperlinkStory interlocking stories]]. Known for being over three hours long, and for [[GainaxEnding possibly the most non-sequitur third-act twist of all time]], as well as for getting an Oscar Nomination for Creator/TomCruise.
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* RainOfSomethingUnusual: The climax has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpdGILXX56k frogs raining from the sky]].
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->''And there's the story of a mother, and the daughter, and the police officer in love.''
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* JumpScare: When the first two frogs hit the windshild.
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* BillingDisplacement: Where's Alfred Molina? Oh, there he is. In one scene early on in the film. Despite of this, he is even credited above Melora Walters.
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* FridgeHorror: The suggestion that [[spoiler:Jimmy Gator molested his daughter]] is horrifying. It's even more horrifying when you remember [[spoiler:his job involves working directly with children.]]
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* WrongGenreSavvy: Jim narrates to himself like he is participating in an episode of ''Series/COPS''.
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* WrongGenreSavvy: Jim narrates to himself like he is participating in an episode of ''Series/COPS''.''Series/{{COPS}}''.
