★ 6.5 2014 USA 149 min

Inherent Vice

Directed by P. T. Anderson

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

Starring

Joaquin PhoenixJosh BrolinOwen WilsonKatherine WaterstonReese WitherspoonBenicio del ToroJena MaloneJoanna Newsom

Music — Jonny Greenwood

Cinematography — Robert Elswit

Based on the novel by — Thomas Pynchon

Screenplay — Paul Thomas Anderson

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