In Theaters September 14
Writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson’s first feature since the Oscar-nominated There Will Be Blood stars Philip Seymour Hoffman as a science-fiction scribe who founds a religious group called the Cause shortly after World War II. Any resemblance to L. Ron Hubbard and the Church of Scientology is … great for the movie’s publicity. Joaquin Phoenix returns to the real world of film acting as a drifter who becomes the Master’s disciple.