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 on Oct. 4 at the New York Film Festival, before opening across the U.S. on Dec. 12.
Sign up for our Entertainment newsletter. Subscribe to More to the Story to get the context you need for the pop culture you love.
