Inherent Vice
In 1970, drug-fueled Los Angeles detective Larry 'Doc' Sportello is surprised by Shasta Fay Hempworth, his former girlfriend and her plot for Mickey Wolfmann, her billionaire boyfriend, his wife, and her boyfriend. Shasta believes Wolfmann is the target of an abduction attempt by his wife and her lover. In helping Shasta, Doc not only goes on a search for Wolfmann, but others who go missing, including Shasta, and one who is assumed to be murdered.
12 June 1978, Readfield, Maine, USA
31 January 1943, Hawick, Borders, Scotland, UK
21 September 1961, Nether Compton, Dorset, England, UK
30 January 1971, Kansas City, Missouri, USA
17 February 1996, Johannesburg, South Africa
25 April 1984, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
3 March 1980, Westminster, London, England, UK
2 June 1999
15 November 1994, Seattle, Washington, USA
1 November 1949, Los Angeles, California, USA
19 February 1967, San Germán, Puerto Rico
27 July 1972, Gainesville, Florida, USA
19 May 1984, Queens, New York, USA
21 November 1984, Dallas, Texas, USA
18 November 1968, Dallas, Texas, USA
July 14, 2016
Inherent Vice is a bizarre, almost dreamlike, movie, one that makes sense from moment to moment but falls apart the second you try to tie it all together.
January 12, 2015
Anderson moves further from conventional storytelling with each new film, and closer to something more intuitive, more damning, more true. He hasn't made it there yet. God help us when he does.
January 09, 2015
Inherent Vice is a sun-glared, neon-limned muddle of noir plotline and potheaded jokery that not only doesn't make sense, but actually seems to try hard not to.
June 18, 2016
After a decade spent making two films that are like pressure cookers, Anderson was clearly ready to blow off some steam.
December 06, 2016
Inherent Vice may not be one of Paul Thomas Anderson's better films, but there is enough there to make it more enjoyable than not.
July 19, 2016
If the adaptation's a little too faithful to sustain a cinematically tight story, there's still a lot to admire in the sheer, uninhibited folly of the whole thing, the gall to get groovy while the Oscar-watchers are on high alert.
January 09, 2015
Some storylines conclude, some collide, others dissipate. But the film's main crime is this: It's boring.
October 28, 2016
... I was drawn into this crazy world completely by Anderson and his merry pranksters, a shaggy dog mystery with a stoner Philip Marlowe applying of free-association investigative technique...
March 04, 2016
Once you let the chaos of all the eccentric characters and the mystery Doc is trying to solve, wash over you, you start appreciating it, but if you question it and try to corral it, the film just slips away from you.
January 09, 2015
Although it's not as hermetic and impenetrable as The Master, Inherent Vice still comes off as a giant inside joke to anyone who hasn't read Pynchon's novel.
April 14, 2016
Its avalanche of idiosyncrasies might make it tough sledding for general audiences, but for trippy, glassblown noir, "Inherent Vice" is a prime cut.
January 09, 2015
Joaquin Phoenix is perfectly cast as the perpetually befuddled Doc, a private detective of sorts who immerses himself in pot in the Los Angeles of 1970.
