Inherent Vice Dvd

Inherent Vice is a 2014 American period neo-noir crime film written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, based on the 2009 novel of the same name by Thomas Pynchon. The cast includes Joaquin Phoenix, Josh Brolin, Owen Wilson, Katherine Waterston, Eric Roberts, Reese Witherspoon, Benicio del Toro, Jena Malone, Joanna Newsom, Jeannie Berlin, Maya Rudolph, Michael K. Williams and Martin Short. The film follows Larry “Doc” Sportello, a well-intentioned but inept stoner, hippie, and private investigator in 1970, who is embroiled in the Los Angeles criminal underworld while investigating three cases interrelated by the disappearance of his ex-girlfriend and her new wealthy boyfriend.

Plot

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. She tells him about her new lover, Michael Z. “Mickey” Wolfmann, a wealthy real estate developer, and asks him to help prevent Mickey’s wife and her lover from abducting Mickey and committing him to an insane asylum. Doc 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. Doc visits Mickey’s Channel View Estates project and enters the only business in the developing strip mall, a massage parlor, where he meets an employee, Jade. He searches the premises for Charlock, but is hit with a baseball bat and collapses. He wakes outside, lying next to Charlock’s dead body and surrounded by policemen. Doc is interrogated by LAPD detective Christian F. “Bigfoot” Bjornsen and learns that Wolfmann has disappeared. He is helped by his attorney, Sauncho Smilax, who arranges for his release by the LAPD.

Doc is hired by former heroin addict Hope Harlingen, who is looking for her missing husband, Coy. She was told that Coy was dead, but believes he is alive due to a large deposit to her bank account. 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 that the Golden Fang is an international drug smuggling operation. There Jade introduces him to Coy, who sought Doc out to tell him that he is hiding at a house in Topanga Canyon. In a second meeting, he reveals he is a police informant and fears for his life, wanting only to return to his wife and daughter. Doc talks to Sauncho, who tells him about a suspicious boat called the Golden Fang and that, the last time the ship sailed, Shasta was on board. Thanks to a postcard from her, Doc finds a large building shaped like a golden fang and meets dentist Rudy Blatnoyd.

Bigfoot calls Doc and tells him that Blatnoyd has just been found dead with fang bites in his neck. 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. There, Doc finds Mickey, who is being watched by the FBI. Mickey tells Doc he felt guilty for the negativity his real-estate business caused and wants to give his money away. He appears to be a happy member of the cult. Doc also glimpses Puck and Coy. 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. She confesses to having been on the Golden Fang on a “three-hour tour” and says she was brought along as inherent vice. She and Doc have sex.

Penny, an assistant district attorney with whom Doc is having a fling, gives him confidential files from which he learns that the LAPD pays the loan shark Adrian Prussia to kill people and that one of his victims was Bigfoot’s former partner. Prussia is tied to the Golden Fang, and Doc learns that Charlock was involved with a deal, which is why he was killed. Doc visits Adrian, noticing his obsession with baseball bats, but is abducted and drugged by his partner, Puck. He manages to escape, killing both Puck and Adrian. Bigfoot appears and rescues him, driving him home, but Doc discovers he has been set up: Bigfoot has planted heroin in his car. Doc arranges for the drugs to be returned to the Golden Fang in exchange for Coy’s freedom. Doc and Shasta drive off together.

Cast

Joaquin Phoenix as Larry “Doc” Sportello
Josh Brolin as Lt. Det. Christian F. “Bigfoot” Bjornsen
Owen Wilson as Coy Harlingen
Katherine Waterston as Shasta Fay Hepworth
Reese Witherspoon as Deputy D.A. Penny Kimball
Benicio del Toro as Sauncho Smilax, Esq.
Jena Malone as Hope Harlingen
Joanna Newsom as Sortilège
Jordan Christian Hearn as Denis
Hong Chau as Jade
Jeannie Berlin as Aunt Reet
Maya Rudolph as Petunia Leeway
Michael Kenneth Williams as Tariq Khalil
Michelle Sinclair as Clancy Charlock
Martin Short as Dr. Rudy Blatnoyd, D.D.S.
Sasha Pieterse as Japonica Fenway
Martin Donovan as Crocker Fenway
Eric Roberts as Michael Z. “Mickey” Wolfmann
Serena Scott Thomas as Sloane Wolfmann
Yvette Yates as Luz
Andrew Simpson as Riggs Warbling
Jefferson Mays as Dr. Threeply, Chryskylodon Institute
Keith Jardine as Puck Beaverton
Peter McRobbie as Adrian Prussia
Sam Jaeger as Agent Flatweed, F.B.I.
Timothy Simons as Agent Borderline, F.B.I.
Samantha Lemole as Golden Fang mother
Madison Leisle as Golden Fang daughter
Matt Doyle as Golden Fang father
Liam van Joosten as Golden Fang son