Inherent Vice (film)

Inherent Vice is a 2014 American stoner crime comedydrama film. The seventh feature film directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, Inherent Vice was adapted by Anderson from the novel of the same name by Thomas Pynchon, and stars an ensemble cast including Joaquin Phoenix, Josh Brolin, Owen Wilson, Katherine Waterston, Reese Witherspoon, Benicio del Toro, Jena Malone, Joanna Newsom, Jeannie Berlin, Maya Rudolph, Michael K. Williams and Martin Short. As with its source material, the storyline revolves around Larry Doc Sportello, a stoner hippie and PI in 1970, as he becomes embroiled in the Los Angeles criminal underworld whilst investigating three cases interrelated by the disappearance of his exgirlfriend and her wealthy boyfriend.

In 1970, Shasta Fay Hepworth visits the rickety beach house of her exboyfriend, Larry Doc Sportello, a private investigator and hippiedope head in Gordita Beach, a fictional town in Los Angeles County. Shasta tells him about her new lover, Michael Z. Mickey Wolfmann, a wealthy real estate developer. She asks Doc to help prevent Mickeys wife and her lover from having Mickey abducted and committed to an insane asylum.At his office, Doc meets with Tariq Khalil, a member of the Black Guerrilla Family. Khalil hires Doc to find Glen Charlock, a member of the Aryan Brotherhood he met in jail, who now owes him money and is one of Wolfmanns bodyguards. ........

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