Magnolia, Paul Thomas Anderson, 1999
Nine characters with tragic destinies are linked by painful encounters in their pasts. A dying man, Earl Partridge, tasks his nurse, Phil Parma, with finding his son―Frank T.J. Mackey, a seminarian specializing in male seduction. Meanwhile, police officer Jim Kurring meets Claudia Wilson Gator, the drug-addicted daughter of the host of a game show, in which a young boy named Stanley Spector is being exploited for the prize money by his father. The former winner of the game, Donnie Smith, struggles to find love. The stories of these characters intersect in a parable about human bonding and the burden of carrying pain from the past.