The debut feature from writer/director Paul Thomas Anderson, HARD EIGHT (1996) features an all-star cast that includes Philip Baker Hall, John C. Reilly, Gwyneth Paltrow and Samuel L. Jackson in a Nevada-set crima drama – with lush cinematography from AFI Conservatory alum Robert Elswit (AFI Class of 1977).
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