“We may be through with the past, but the past ain't through with us.” This is a quote from the 1999 film "Magnolia", starring Tom Cruise, Julianne Moore, and Philip Seymour Hoffman. The line is first uttered by aging game show host Jimmy Gator (Philip Baker Hall). Gator is the first of several to make this loose and indicative religious quote in "Magnolia", a complex film with characters full of emotion, providing alarming twists, and a lot of arrestingly original human reactions.

The film is an American epic character study and psychological drama written, directed, and co-produced by Paul Thomas Anderson. It stars an ensemble cast. Besides Cruise, Moore, and Hoffman, the cast includes Jeremy Blackman, Melinda Dillon, Philip Baker Hall, Ricky Jay, William H. Macy, Alfred Molina, Michael Murphy, John C. Reilly, Jason Robards (in his final film role) and Melora Walters. The film has a mosaic of interrelated characters (dysfunctional people) in search of happiness, forgiveness, and meaning in the San Fernando Valley, CA. Crafted like an origami flower, rife with salty language and Fortean occurrences, "Magnolia" is about forgiveness and reconciliation—with people focused on themselves and others. But "what can we forgive?" asks Officer Jim. The answer for many is clearly, not everything.

"Magnolia" received positive reviews, with critics praising its acting (particularly Cruise), direction, screenplay, and storytelling, as well as its soundtrack. It also made a profit.

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