There Will Be Blood

A sprawling epic of family; faith; power and oil; THERE WILL BE BLOOD is set on the incendiary frontier of Californias turn-of-the-century petroleum boom. The story chronicles the life and times of one Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day-Lewis); who transforms himself from a down-and-out silver miner raising a son on his own into a self-made oil tycoon. When Plainview gets a mysterious tip-off that theres a little town out West where an ocean of oil is oozing out of the ground; he heads with his son; H.W. (Dillon Freasier); to take their chances in dust-worn Little Boston. In this hardscrabble town; where the main excitement centers around the holy roller church of charismatic preacher Eli Sunday (Paul Dano); Plainview and H.W. make their lucky strike. But even as the well raises all of their fortunes; nothing will remain the same as conflicts escalate and every human value love; hope; community; belief; ambition and even the bond between father and son is imperiled by corruption; deception and the flow of oil.