I think I can say that the post-screening panel at the Directors Guild Theater, which featured writer - director Paul Thomas Anderson and actors Daniel Day - Lewis, Lesley Manville, and relative newcomer Vicky Krieps, ought to have had two additional seats if buttering up the crowd for in -
reach awards glory was its true aim.
Luckily for the producers of this film, a PG - 13 rating was
awarded, because now their target audience can be
reached, namely 13 - year - old boys who find jokes about pooping, farting, belching, and urinating in one's pants to be the height of comedic
glory.