In Los Angeles at the turn of the 1970s, drug-fueled detective Larry "Doc" Sportello investigates the disappearance of an ex-girlfriend.
Larry "Doc" Sportello
Lt. Det. Christian F. "Bigfoot" Bjornsen
Coy Harlingen
Shasta Fay Hepworth
Deputy D.A. Penny Kimball
Sauncho Smilax
Hope Harlingen
Sortilège
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...
Status Released
Original LanguageEnglish
Budget$20,000,000.00
Revenue $14,710,975.00