Title: Magnolia (1999)
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson

Genre: Drama

Overview:
24 hours in L.A.; it's raining cats and dogs. Two parallel and intercut stories dramatize a man about to die: both men are estranged from a grown child, both want to make contact, and neither child wants anything to do with dad. Earl Partridge's son is a charismatic misogynist; Jimmy Gator's daughter is a cokehead and waif. A mild and caring nurse intercedes for Earl, reaching the son; a prayerful and upright beat cop meets the daughter, is attracted to her, and leads her toward a new calm. Meanwhile, guilt consumes Earl's young wife, while two whiz kids, one grown and a loser and the other young and pressured, face their situations. The weather, too, is quirky.

Cast overview, first billed only:
Tom Cruise .... Frank T.J. Mackey
Pat Healy .... Sir Edmund William Godfrey/Young Pharmacy Kid
Julianne Moore .... Linda Partridge
Genevieve Zweig .... Mrs. Godfrey
Mark Flannagan .... Joseph Green
William H. Macy .... Quiz Kid Donnie Smith
Neil Flynn .... Stanley Berry
Philip Seymour Hoffman .... Phil Parma

taken from: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0175880/

IMO:
the intro was nice, especially the part where the guy from suicide become homicide... but later it starts to get a bit boring... i think the show a bit too long liao la, 3 hours... its raining frogs, not cats and dogs...

Rating:
3 out of 5 snoopys