![]() ![]() She brags about what she did on the boat to provoke Doc into sex, then tells him they still aren't back together. Shasta confesses to having been on the Golden Fang with Mickey on a "three-hour tour" and says she was brought along to be used sexually by all of Mickey's friends. She tells him Mickey is back with his wife. When Doc returns home to his beach house, he is greeted by Shasta, who has returned and is indifferent to the trouble her disappearance has caused. Mickey tells him he felt guilty for the negativity his real-estate business caused and wants to give his money away, appearing to be a happy member of the cult. ![]() There, Doc finds Mickey, who is being watched by the FBI. Bigfoot decides to help Doc find Coy and tells him to search for Puck Beaverton in Chryskylodon, an asylum run by a cult connected to the Golden Fang. Thanks to a postcard from her, Doc finds a large building shaped like a golden fang and meets dentist Rudy Blatnoyd.īigfoot calls Doc and tells him that Blatnoyd has just been found dead with fang bites in his neck. Doc talks to Sauncho, who tells him about the suspicious boat, the Golden Fang, which the last time it sailed, Shasta was on board. In a later meeting, he explains he is a police informant and fears for his life, wanting only to return to his wife and daughter. Jade introduces Doc to Coy, who tells him he is hiding at a house in Topanga Canyon. Jade leaves Doc a message apologizing for setting him up with the police and telling him to "beware the Golden Fang." He meets her in an alley, where she explains the Golden Fang is an international drug smuggling operation. ![]() Although told that Coy is dead, she believes he is alive due to a large deposit to her bank account. His attorney, Sauncho Smilax, arranges for his release by the LAPD.ĭoc is hired by former heroin addict Hope Harlingen, who is looking for her missing husband, Coy. "Bigfoot" Bjornsen, he learns that Wolfmann has disappeared. Interrogated by LAPD detective Christian F. Doc wakes outside, lying next to Charlock's dead body and surrounded by policemen. He searches the premises for Charlock, but is hit with a baseball bat and collapses. He visits Mickey's Channel View Estates project, entering the only business in the developing strip mall, a massage parlor, where he meets an employee, Jade. "Mickey" Wolfmann, a wealthy real estate developer, and asks him to help prevent Mickey's wife from abducting Mickey and committing him to an insane asylum.ĭoc meets with Tariq Khalil, a member of the Black Guerrilla Family, who hires him to find Glen Charlock, a member of the Aryan Brotherhood he met in jail, who owes him money and is one of Wolfmann's bodyguards. She tells him about her new lover, Michael Z. In 1970, Shasta Fay Hepworth visits the beach house of her ex-boyfriend, Larry "Doc" Sportello, a private investigator and hippie in Gordita Beach, Los Angeles County. In 2016, it was voted the 75th best film since 2000 in an international critics' poll. Some critics said that Inherent Vice has the makings of a cult film. The National Board of Review named it one of the ten best films of the year. It was nominated for several awards, including two at the 87th Academy Awards and Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for Phoenix at the 72nd Golden Globe Awards. The film received generally positive reviews from critics, with many praising the performances, costumes and screenplay, but some criticizing the complicated plot. Inherent Vice premiered at the New York Film Festival on October 4, 2014, and began a limited theatrical release in the United States on December 12, 2014, by Warner Bros. It is Anderson's second collaboration with Phoenix, following The Master (2012), and involves a number of his other recurring collaborators, including producers Daniel Lupi and JoAnne Sellar, cinematographer Robert Elswit, editor Leslie Jones, and composer Jonny Greenwood. ![]() The film follows Larry "Doc" Sportello, a well-intentioned but fumbling stoner, hippie, and private investigator embroiled in the criminal underworld of 1970 Los Angeles, investigating three cases linked by the disappearance of his ex-girlfriend and her wealthy new boyfriend.Īnderson's adaptation of Inherent Vice had been in development since 2010 it is the first and so far only Pynchon novel to be adapted for the screen. The ensemble cast includes Joaquin Phoenix, Josh Brolin, Owen Wilson, Katherine Waterston, Eric Roberts, Reese Witherspoon, Benicio del Toro, Jena Malone, and Joanna Newsom. Inherent Vice is a 2014 American period neo-noir mystery comedy film written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, based on the 2009 novel of the same name by Thomas Pynchon. ![]()
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