Metrograph

A movie of unchecked, cosmic ambitions and desperate emotional eruptions, Anderson’s magnum opus takes place during an eventful day in the life of the San Fernando Valley, as viewed through the interlocked stories of an ensemble that includes two aging, ailing television-world figures (Philip Baker Hall, Jason Robards), two drug-and-sorrow addled women (Julianne Moore, Melora Walters), two “whiz kids” (William H. Macy, Stanley Spector), and an eerily-prescient Men’s Rights monster played by a very game Tom Cruise, all united in spiritual sickness and the songs of Aimee Mann.