

Inherent Vice
Love usually leads to trouble.
Overview
In Los Angeles at the turn of the 1970s, drug-fueled detective Larry "Doc" Sportello investigates the disappearance of an ex-girlfriend.
- Budget
- $20,000,000
- Revenue
- $14,810,975
- Production
- Warner Bros. Pictures, IAC Films, JoAnne Sellar Productions, Ghoulardi Film Company, RatPac Entertainment
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Cast

Joaquin Phoenix
Larry "Doc" Sportello

Josh Brolin
Lt. Det. Christian F. "Bigfoot" Bjornsen

Owen Wilson
Coy Harlingen

Katherine Waterston
Shasta Fay Hepworth

Reese Witherspoon
Deputy D.A. Penny Kimball

Benicio del Toro
Sauncho Smilax, Esq.

Jena Malone
Hope Harlingen

Joanna Newsom
Sortilège, who is also the narrator

Jordan Christian Hearn
Denis

Hong Chau
Jade

Jeannie Berlin
Aunt Reet

Maya Rudolph
Petunia Leeway

Michael Kenneth Williams
Tariq Khalil

Martin Short
Dr. Rudy Blatnoyd, D.D.S.

Sasha Pieterse
Japonica Fenway

Martin Donovan
Crocker Fenway

Eric Roberts
Michael Z. "Mickey" Wolfmann

Serena Scott Thomas
Sloane Wolfmann

Christopher Allen Nelson
Glenn Charlock

Sam Jaeger
Agent Flatweed
Crew
- Director
- Paul Thomas Anderson
- Writers
- Paul Thomas Anderson
- Cinematography
- Robert Elswit
- Composer
- Shye Ben Tzur,Jonny Greenwood
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mattwilde123
March 9, 2017
'Inherent Vice' is the next feature film from Paul Thomas Anderson and you can tell. It boasts a great soundtrack, brilliant acting and a very convoluted story as it tells the story of a private detective (Phoenix) as he investigates into the disappearance of a former girlfriend. The screenplay is very confusing. It is hard to follow and purposely so as it introduces many characters and multiple stories but I have heard that this aspect of the screenplay is very true to the original source ma…

GenerationofSwine
January 11, 2023
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…





