Magnolia

“Things fall down. People look up. And when it rains, it pours.”

One day in the San Fernando Valley, nine people who barely know one another turn out to belong to a single story. Among them are Frank T.J. Mackey (Tom Cruise), a famous lost son, and Jimmy Gator (Philip Baker Hall), a game show host with a dying father, in Paul Thomas Anderson's sprawl of Aimee Mann songs and overlapping lives. Underneath it runs a plain idea: people hurt each other and keep needing forgiveness anyway.