The Master (2012)

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.

• alcoholic
• book
• charismatic leader
• cult leader
• drifter
• past life regression
• post traumatic stress disorder
• postwar period
• religious cult
• right hand man
• scientology
• sexual obsession