Magnolia...tells the stories of many many characters struggling to cope with their variously fractured families. A TV producer lies dying, his memory beginning to fail, crying out to see his lost son. A cable-tv celebrity who gives seminars on seducing women is challenged by an insightful television journalist, and the ghosts of his past grow restless under his carefully built facade. A former quiz-kid champion struggles with the uselessness of his knowledge, and the emptiness of his lonely life. And an up-and-coming quiz kid champion wrestles with fame in a different way, trying to break free of his controlling father...

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