Magnolia, directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, is, in a word, CRAZY. When I first happened to see this movie, it had already been on for about a half hour, and I was already thinking, "What the hell is Tom Cruise doing?" Keep watching, though, is my advice. I know the movie is three hours and eight minutes, but it's one of those movies where if you don't finish it, you'd be wondering how it ends. Maybe that's just me, I don't know, but I couldn't stop watching it because all the storylines -- it's one of those anthology movies, only my favorite kind! -- were so enigmatic, that there just had to be a reason, a purpose, to this movie. That purpose was revealed to me during my favorite scene, when the frogs fall, to the sound of Aimee Mann (the film's primary music provider) and to the tears of Philip Seymour Hoffman. A story about family and making life worthwhile, this movie is definitely worth your time.
Hasta la vista, baby,
Amanda
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