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1	* AwardSnub:
2	** The film wasn't nominated for Best Picture or Best Director at the UsefulNotes/{{Academy Award}}s.
3	** "Save Me" losing the Oscar for Best Song to Music/PhilCollins for ''WesternAnimation/{{Tarzan}}''.
4	** Many cite this film as having the performance of Creator/TomCruise's career, and would say that he deserved the Oscar over Creator/MichaelCaine for ''Film/TheCiderHouseRules''.
5	* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: [[CrowdSong "Wise Up"]]. Other songs worth of mention are "One", "Save Me" (The closing credits songs) and "Momentum", all of them composed and/or performed by Aimee Mann ("One" was composed by Music/HarryNilsson). Even the reviewers who dislike the movie tend to praise its soundtrack.
6	* DracoInLeatherPants: Frank is this within the story.
7	* 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]].
8	* HarsherInHindsight: Creator/JasonRobards' character in the film suffers from terminal brain and lung cancer. Robards coincidentally died of lung cancer a year after the film was released.
9	* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments: "I can't let this go. I can't let you go. Now, you... you listen to me now. [[YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre You're a good person. You're a good and beautiful person and I won't let you walk out on me. And I won't let you say those things - those things about how stupid you are and this and that.]] I won't stand for that. You want to be with me... then you be with me. You see?"
10	* HePannedItNowHeSucks: Creator/KevinSmith notoriously disliked this movie. In [[TakeThat response]] to the backlash he got, one of the internet trolls in ''Film/JayAndSilentBobStrikeBack'' was named "Magnolia-Fan."
11	* ProtectionFromEditors: Creator/PaulThomasAnderson got this after the success of ''Film/BoogieNights''. He made ''Magnolia'', an ambitious project, because he felt he might never get the chance again.
12	* RetroactiveRecognition: Creator/ClarkGregg plays one of the crew members on "What Do Kids Know?".
13	* SignatureLine: "Respect the cock and tame the cunt."
14	* TooBleakStoppedCaring: The rather self-centered behavior displayed by many characters in the cast, made it hard for some viewers to sympathize with them.
15	%% * TheWoobie: Every character except for [[{{Jerkass}} Rick Spector]] qualifies as either this or JerkassWoobie, even [[spoiler: Jimmy Gator, the man who quite possibly molested his daughter]] evokes sympathy because of how sad and pitiful he is.

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