Inherent Vice [2015]

Joaquin Phoenix and Josh Brolin star in this Academy Award-nominated crime comedy drama written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. Private Detective Doc Sportello (Phoenix) is happily getting on with his life when his ex-wife Shasta (Katherine Waterston) shows up at his office with a story that her billionaire boyfriend Mickey Wolfmann (Eric Roberts)'s wife is plotting to kidnap her husband and get him committed to a psychiatric facility so that she can stake a claim on his money. As Doc reluctantly takes on the case he pays a visit to tight-fisted cop Bigfoot Bjornsen (Brolin) to see what he knows about the alleged kidnap victim. The all-star cast also includes Reese Witherspoon, Owen Wilson, Benicio Del Toro and Martin Short. Synopsis From Paul Thomas Anderson and Thomas Pynchon, it’s the tail end of the psychedelic ‘60 s and paranoia is running the day from the desert to the sea of sunny Southern California. With a cast of characters that includes surfers, hustlers, dopers and rockers, a murderous loan shark, the FBI, LAPD detectives, a tenor sax player working undercover, a group of Beverly Hills dentists and a mysterious entity called The Golden Fang, everything’s gone from “groovy” to “where you at, man?” in what seems like a matter of moments. So when private eye Doc Sportello’s ex-old lady Shasta Fay shows up at his door with a story about her current billionaire land-developer boyfriend and his wife and her boyfriend… well it all starts to get a little peculiar after that. Maybe you’ll just want to see the movie?