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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Inherent Vice is the 2014 film adaptation of the book of the same name by Thomas Pynchon. It was directed and written by Paul Thomas Anderson and stars Joaquin Phoenix, Josh Brolin, and an All-Star Cast. How all-star? Reese Witherspoon is in this movie, and she has three scenes.Doc Sportello (Phoenix) lives in the fictional Southern California town of Gordita Beach in 1970, working as a private investigator while also getting high a lot. One day his ex-girlfriend, Shasta Fay Hepworth (Katherine Waterston), shows up and asks him to take on a case regarding her lover, real-estate developer Mickey Wolfmann. Shasta believes Mickey's wife and Mickey's wife's lover are consipiring to take his money and have him committed. Meanwhile, a gangster named Tariq Khalil hires Doc to find Glen Charlock, another ex-convict who owes him money—and happens to be one of Mickey Wolfmann's bodyguards. Doc gets hired on still a third case when Hope Harlingen asks him to find her husband, Coy. Coy's been reported dead, but Hope doesn't believe it.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })It gets even more confusing from there.
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Beneath Notice: The Golden Fang operatives who make the swap with Doc at the end aren't overtly shady contract killers but an unremarkable white, upper-middle class family, including their adolescent children.
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Beard of Sorrow: Downplayed. Bigfoot has noticeable stubble when he barges into Doc's place at the end mid-existential crisis.
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Aside Glance: Doc looks right at the camera right before the film ends, as he makes a Call-Back to something Shasta said to him earlier.
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Bad "Bad Acting": Bigfoot is an aspiring actor who takes any role he can get. He's apparently terrible. One of his few roles is stiffly delivering a sales pitch as the least convincing hippy ever.
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Beware the Nice Ones: Patient and upbeat as he is, woe be to anybody who puts Doc in a life or death situation, namely Adrian Prussia and Puck Beaverton.
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