NEW YORK, Sept. 30 (UPI) -- Boogie Nights and Magnolia director Paul Thomas Anderson is back, reuniting with actor Joaquin Phoenix for the star-studded adaptation of Thomas Pynchon's Inherent Vice.
According to the New York Film Festival's description of Inherent Vice, an official selection of the 2014 festival, the film sets audiences "deep within the world of the paranoid, hazy LA dope culture of the early '70s."
"It's not just the look ... it's the feel, the rhythm of hanging out, of talking yourself into a state of shivering ecstasy or fear or something in between. Joaquin Phoenix goes all the way for Anderson (just as he did in The Master) playing Doc Sportello, the private investigator searching for his ex-girlfriend Shasta (Katherine Waterston), menaced at every turn by Josh Brolin as the telegenic police detective "Bigfoot" Bjornsen. Among the other members of Anderson's mind-boggling cast are Reese Witherspoon, Benicio Del Toro, Martin Short, Owen Wilson, and Jena Malone. A trip, and a truly great American film."
Musician Joanna Newsome also appears in the film.
