Inherent Vice
“Love usually leads to trouble.”
DramaMysteryComedy
In Los Angeles at the turn of the 1970s, drug-fueled detective Larry "Doc" Sportello investigates the disappearance of an ex-girlfriend.
VIBE
This film feels like a sun-drenched, drug-addled dream, a darkly comedic and melancholic journey through a fading counterculture. It's a hazy, surreal neo-noir that washes over you, full of eccentric characters and a pervasive sense of longing and paranoia, all wrapped in a distinctly 70s California haze.
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