10 Things You Didn't Know About Paul Thomas Anderson's Movies

7. With A Bigger Budget For Magnolia It Would Have Rained Cats And Dogs

Magnolia is for many people a real favourite from the Paul Thomas Anderson filmography. With its sweeping intertwining narrative and all-round incredible performances from a great ensemble cast, it's a near-perfect homage to the films of Robert Altman from the 1970s. One of the most memorable scenes in Magnolia - indeed, in any movie - comes in the final act, as out of nowhere the sky fills with frogs colliding to the ground like rain. Films rarely achieve this kind of level of bizarreness but if Anderson had had his way it would have been even stranger - if he'd gotten his hands on more money he wanted it to rain cats and dogs. Presumably (and hopefully) his intention was to use fake, rather than live, animals.