There will be blood: A sprawling epic of family

A sprawling epic of family, faith, power and oil, ' There Will Be Blood ' is set on the incendiary frontier of California’s turn-of-the-century petroleum boom. The story chronicles the life and times of one Daniel Plainview, who transforms himself from a down-and-out silver miner raising a son on his own into a self-made oil tycoon. Ruthless silver miner, turned oil prospector, Daniel Plainview, moves to oil-rich California. Using his son to project a trustworthy, family-man image, Plainview cons local landowners into selling him their valuable properties for a pittance. However, local preacher Eli Sunday suspects Plainview's motives and intentions, starting a slow-burning feud that threatens both their lives. An ambitious prospector strikes it rich and turns a simple village into a boomtown, stoking the ire of a charismatic young preacher. A story of family, religion, hatred, oil and madness, focusing on a turn-of-the-century prospector in the early days of the business. There Will Be Blood is a 2007 drama with a runtime of 2 hours and 38 minutes. It has received outstanding reviews from critics and viewers, who have given it an IMDb score of 8.2 and a MetaScore of 93.