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.
Joaquin Phoenix
as Freddie Quell
Philip Seymour Hoffman
as Lancaster Dodd
Amy Adams
as Peggy Dodd
Rami Malek
as Clark
Laura Dern
as Helen Sullivan
Jesse Plemons
as Val Dodd
Ambyr Childers
as Elizabeth Dodd
Madisen Beaty
as Doris Solstad
Kevin J. O'Connor
as Bill White
Patty McCormack
as Mildred Drummond
Lena Endre
as Mrs. Solstad
Barbara Brownell
as Margaret O'Brien
