--- description: The trailer for Paul Thomas Anderson's adaptation of Thomas Pynchon's 'Inherent Vice' is here at last title: Watch the Trailer for Paul Thomas Anderson's 'Inherent Vice' image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt76d5c87a763845f4/6986a615169ab0339127b767/inherent-vice.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [movies](/tag/movies/) ## movies Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Watch the Trailer for Paul Thomas Anderson's _Inherent Vice_ by [Megan Gibson](/author/megan-gibson/) ## Megan Gibson Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Sep 30, 2014 10:23 AM CUT  by [Megan Gibson](/author/megan-gibson/) ## Megan Gibson Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Sep 30, 2014 10:23 AM CUT Film and literature buffs alike can rejoice: the trailer for Paul Thomas Anderson’s adaptation of Thomas Pynchon’s _Inherent Vice_ is here at last. The film marks both Anderson’s seventh film and the first movie adaptation of a Pynchon novel. And judging from the trailer (above), the end result is a delightfully bonkers comedy. Starring Joaquin Phoenix, Josh Brolin, Reese Witherspoon, Benicio Del Toro, Owen Wilson and Martin Short, the film follows private investigator Doc Sportello (Phoenix) on a bizarre investigation during the “tail end of the psychedelic ’60s” in Los Angeles. The film will make its [world premiere](http://www.filmlinc.com/nyff2014/films/inherent-vice "undefined") on Oct. 4 at the New York Film Festival, before opening across the U.S. on Dec. 12. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3448964/trailer-paul-thomas-anderson-inherent-vice/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3448964/trailer-paul-thomas-anderson-inherent-vice/"},"headline":"Watch the Trailer for Paul Thomas Anderson's Inherent Vice","datePublished":"2014-09-30T10:23:24.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T10:29:00.955Z","description":"The film marks the first-ever movie adaptation of a Thomas Pynchon novel","url":"https://time.com/3448964/trailer-paul-thomas-anderson-inherent-vice/","keywords":["movies","Trailer","Trailers","Reese Witherspoon"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt76d5c87a763845f4/6986a615169ab0339127b767/inherent-vice.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan Gibson","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/megan-gibson/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt76d5c87a763845f4/6986a615169ab0339127b767/inherent-vice.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"inherent-vice","caption":"","creditText":"","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/movies/","name":"movies"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3448964/trailer-paul-thomas-anderson-inherent-vice/","name":"Watch the Trailer for Paul Thomas Anderson's Inherent Vice"}}]}] ```