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Inherent Vice (2014)

R12/12/2014Drama, Mystery, Comedy2h 29m

Under the paving stones, the beach!

Overview

In Los Angeles at the turn of the 1970s, drug-fueled detective Larry "Doc" Sportello investigates the disappearance of an ex-girlfriend.

Top Billed Cast

  1. Cast 1

    Joaquin Phoenix

    Larry "Doc" Sportello

  2. Cast 1

    Josh Brolin

    Lt. Det. Christian F. "Bigfoot" Bjornsen

  3. Cast 1

    Owen Wilson

    Coy Harlingen

  4. Cast 1

    Katherine Waterston

    Shasta Fay Hepworth

  5. Cast 1

    Reese Witherspoon

    Deputy D.A. Penny Kimball

  6. Cast 1

    Benicio del Toro

    Sauncho Smilax

  7. Cast 1

    Jena Malone

    Hope Harlingen

  8. Cast 1

    Joanna Newsom

    Sortilège

  9. Cast 1

    Jordan Christian Hearn

    Denis

I kind of feel that Anderson lends himself to a film like this. He uses a lot of extreme wide angles and if you ever smoked a little dope in college the world looks a little like when you mount that 18mm on your SLR. His choice of lenses lends itself to telling the story of a guy like Doc without going over the top ala Fear and Loathing and making it a little too blatantly FX. The humor works in best possible dry as a martini kind of way, and it's played straight like comedy should be. But really, the premise sold me. Take a hard boiled film noir kind of mystery and replace Sam Spade wit...