Storyline
In Los Angeles at the turn of the 1970s, drug-fueled detective Larry "Doc" Sportello investigates the disappearance of an ex-girlfriend.
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Cast
Owen Wilson, Christopher Karl Johnson, Jena Malone, Joaquin Phoenix, Sasha Pieterse, Benicio del Toro, Michael Kenneth Williams, Keith Jardine, Josh Brolin, Maya Rudolph, Reese Witherspoon, Christopher Allen Nelson, Martin Dew, Martin Short, Martin Donovan, Peter McRobbie, Amy Ferguson, Ken Edling, Samantha Lemole, Sam Jaeger, Serena Scott Thomas, Eric Roberts, Catherine Haena Kim, Katherine Waterston, Erica Sullivan, Jeannie Berlin, Jillian Bell, Dallas James, Charley Morgan, Anders Holm, Marianne Bourg, Gregoer Boru, Joel Shock, Timothy Simons, Jefferson Mays, Yvette Yates, Dakota Lupo, Raiden Integra, Elaine Tan, Joanna Newsom, Hong Chau, Jordan Christian Hearn, Taylor Bonin, Shannon Collis, Vivienne Khaledi, Andrew Simpson, Joe Dioletto, Jack Kelly, The Growlers, Belladonna, Wilson Bethel, Emmet Unverzagt, Eva Fisher, Jackie Michele Johnson, Katie Schwartz, Delaina Mitchell, Michael Cotterman, Shannon C. Sullivan, Madison Leisle, Christian Williams, Liam Van Joosten, Matt Doyle, Ashleigh Biller, David Prak, Emma Dumont, Scott Aschenbrenner, Christina Bobrowsky, Peter Bonilla, Toyia Brown, Stu Brumbaugh, Seth Cash, Laura Lyon Rossi, Elizabeth Colunga, Emma Cooper, Nick de Graffenreid, Adam Dorsey, Jenna Emery, Al Function, Brandy Futch, Lauren Goncher, Ellen Ho, Jessica Huss, Laura Kranz, Timothy Lally, Adeana Lane, Kira Legg, Tracy Ann Lisa, Blue LoLan, Jacob Lyman, Amanda Maddox, Emilee Madrak, Kirstin Masters, Zach McMahon, Chelsea O'Toole, Shaun Parker, Rodney J. Richards, Philip Roosevelt, Osamu Saito, Matthew Skomo, Chantal Thuy, Diana Elizabeth Torres
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Reviews
100
The film is stupendous: as antic as Boogie Nights and Punch-Drunk Love, but with The Master and There Will Be Blood’s uncanny feel for the swell and ebb of history.
100
This movie is so funny, so strange, so wonderfully charmingly deranged.
100
Anderson’s seventh feature film is a groovy, richly funny stoner romp that has less in common with “The Big Lebowski” than with the strain of fatalistic, ’70s-era California noirs (“Chinatown,” “The Long Goodbye,” “Night Moves”) in which the question of “whodunit?” inevitably leads to an existential vanishing point.
100
Slant Magazine
The dangers of filmmakers trying to replicate a golden era rather than embrace the present are part and parcel of Inherent Vice, but the ramifications are political as well.
83
Inherent Vice constantly teases at a complex meta commentary on the other movies it brings to mind, but never totally gets there.
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