Magnolia (Film)

The movie intertwines the lives of its nine main characters . All of them are interrelated through the show , What Do Kids Know . Earl Patridge , the former successful producer of the show , is in his last days . He has a terminal cancer stage , and is often in pain . He vents out guilt and regret over the family he neglected in the past . Linda , his second young wife , runs errands for him to compensate for the guilt she feels over marrying him just because of his money , and expresses remorse why she only fell in

love with him in the last stages of his life . Phil Earl 's private nurse , cares for Earl like a father , and he helps him locate Earl 's estranged son , Frank . Frank is the creator and host of a self-help program for men with relationship issues , and claims that his father died years ago . He hides his anguish under obnoxious pretense and tries to conceal the pain of his father 's abandonment by lying about his past . Jimmy is the legendary host of Earl 's erstwhile TV show . He is dying of cancer also . His doting wife Rose attends to him . Jimmy later on confesses to Rose about his infidelities . Rose forgives him for that but eventually leaves when she discovers that Jimmy molested their daughter Claudia . Claudia , their embittered daughter , ran away from home years ago and has become a drug addict in an attempt to escape from her pain . One day , her father visits her...