

Freddie, a volatile, heavy-drinking veteran who suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder, finds some semblance of a family when he stumbles onto the ship of Lancaster Dodd, the charismatic leader of a new "religion" he forms after World War II.
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Cast

Joaquin Phoenix
Freddie Quell

Philip Seymour Hoffman
Lancaster Dodd

Amy Adams
Peggy Dodd

Rami Malek
Clark

Laura Dern
Helen Sullivan

Jesse Plemons
Val Dodd

Ambyr Childers
Elizabeth Dodd

Madisen Beaty
Doris Solstad

Kevin J. O'Connor
Bill White

Patty McCormack
Mildred Drummond

Lena Endre
Mrs. Solstad

Barbara Brownell
Margaret O'Brien
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