Just the fact that Paul Thomas Anderson has a new movie
coming out is enough to get most movie fans excited. Though we’re tenting our
fingers like Mr. Burns over his latest, the psychedelic noir adaptation of
Thomas Pynchon’s Inherent Vice, the first trailers have been
rather uninspiring. But lucky for us, there’s this short new trailer, cut by
Anderson himself, which captures the manic, wing-nut energy of the story.
This is a promo for a surprise screening going down in
London this Wednesday, so if that happens to be your stomping grounds, by all
means, you might want to look into this. The rest of us, however, are going to
have to remain content with videos like this, and the new banner poster up top,
until the film finally drops in our neck of the woods.
Here’s the official synopsis:
When private eye Doc Sportello's ex-old lady suddenly out of nowhere shows up with a story about her current billionaire land developer boyfriend whom she just happens to be in love with, and a plot by his wife and her boyfriend to kidnap that billionaire and throw him in a loony bin... well, easy for her to say.
It's the tail end of the psychedelic '60s and paranoia is running the day and Doc knows that "love" is another of those words going around at the moment, like "trip" or "groovy," that's being way too overused—except this one usually leads to trouble.
With a cast of characters that includes surfers, hustlers, dopers and rockers, a murderous loan shark, LAPD Detectives, a tenor sax player working undercover, and a mysterious entity known as the Golden Fang, which may only be a tax dodge set up by some dentists... Part surf noir, part psychedelic romp - all Thomas Pynchon.
Inherent Vice features an insane cast
that includes Joaquin Phoenix, Josh Brolin, Owen Wilson, Katherine Waterston,
Reese Witherspoon, Benicio Del Toro, Martin Short, Jena Malone, Joanna Newson,
and more, and opens in a limited release December 12, with a wider run starting
January 9, 2015. Check out the trailer below.
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