WATERSTON: (As Shasta) I need your help, Doc. MONDELLO: And he's psyched until it turns out this isn't just a social call. KATHERINE WATERSTON: (As Shasta) Thinks he's hallucinating. Doc, a long-haired private eye, is lying stoned on his couch at midday when he sees what seems to be a vision - his ex looking radiant and almost unrecognizable. The place - a beach town in Southern California with the laid-back feel of a hippie haven. Filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson is known for dense, complicated movies like "There Will Be Blood." Novelist Thomas Pynchon writes dense, complicated books like "Gravity's Rainbow." So what happens when Hollywood puts these two together for a drug-fueled caper comedy called "Inherent Vice?" Critic Bob Mondello says, no surprise, it's dense and complicated.īOB MONDELLO, BYLINE: The year is 1970.
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