Inherent Vice

Inherent Vice (2009; film 2014), Pynchon’s rambling take on the detective novel, returns to the California counterculture milieu of Vineland. Bleeding Edge (2013) chronicles the efforts of a fraud investigator to untangle the nefarious doings of a New York computer-security firm in the year leading…

…helmed Inherent Vice (2014), an adaptation of Thomas Pynchon’s darkly comic crime noir (2009). He also wrote the script, which was nominated for an Academy Award for best screenplay based on material previously produced or published. Anderson next wrote and directed Phantom Thread (2017), which starred Day-Lewis as a dressmaker…

…Vice (2014), adapted from the comic crime noir by Thomas Pynchon, she played the love interest of a private investigator (Joaquin Phoenix). The farcical Hot Pursuit (2015) featured Witherspoon as a straight-laced police officer who must protect the widow of a criminal. She later supplied the voice of a pig…