The lives of nine Los Angeles residents, each facing their own problems and issues, begin to intersect over the course of one day. A misogynistic motivational speaker faces a reunion with his dying father, a TV presenter learns he has terminal cancer, and a former child genius looks back on a disappointing life. Paul Thomas Anderson's drama, starring Tom Cruise, Jason Robards, Julianne Moore, William H Macy, Philip Seymour Hoffman and John C Reilly