The Master (2012)

The Master is a drama film written, directed, and co-produced by Paul Thomas Anderson. It was given the green-light in May 2011, and began filming in June 2011. The Master was released on September 14, 2012, by The Weinstein Company in the United States and Canada. The film had its premiere at the 69th Venice International Film Festival in September 2012.

Synopsis: A charismatic intellectual 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.


It stars Joaquin Phoenix as Freddie Quell, Philip Seymour Hoffman as Lancaster Dodd, Amy Adams as Peggy Dodd, Laura Dern as Helen, Ambyr Childers as Elizabeth, Lancaster's daughter, Jesse Plemons as Val Dodd, Lancaster's son, Lena Endre as Mrs. Solstad, Rami Malek as Clark, son-in-law of Lancaster Dodd, Madisen Beaty as Doris Solstad, Joshua Close as Wayne, W. Earl Brown as Bus, David Warshofsky as a detective, Kevin J. O'Connor as Bill White, Steven Wiig as Philadelphia Follower, Fiona Dourif and Patty McCormack