Movie

Inherent Vice

by Paul Thomas Anderson, Sortilège, Joanna Newsom, Joaquin Phoenix, Josh Brolin and 181 others

In Los Angeles at the turn of the 1970s, drug-fueled detective Larry "Doc" Sportello investigates the disappearance of an ex-girlfriend.

(15 total)

Characters

Paul Thomas Anderson (15)Sortilège (7)Joanna Newsom (7)Sasha Pieterse (2)Japonica Fenway (2)Petunia Leeway (1)Michael Z. Wolfmann (1)Maya Rudolph (1)Aunt Reet (1)Eric Roberts (1)

“Japonica Fenway: Are you The Great Beast? Dr. Rudy Blatnoyd, D.D.S.: No, that's a policeman.”

— Paul Thomas Anderson, Japonica Fenway, Sasha Pieterse, imdb.com

Tagged: great beast, Policeman

“Well, it's dark and lonely work, but somebody's gotta do it, right?”

— Paul Thomas Anderson, Petunia Leeway, Maya Rudolph, imdb.com

Tagged: lonely work, somebody's gotta do it

“I spent my whole life...I spent my whole life making people pay for shelter and all along I didn't realize...I didn't realize it was supposed to be for free. For free.”

— Paul Thomas Anderson, Michael Z. Wolfmann, Eric Roberts, imdb.com

Tagged: Shelter, free shelter

“Doc Sportello: So, what've you been up to? Japonica Fenway: Escaping, mostly, and I escape real good.”

— Paul Thomas Anderson, Japonica Fenway, Sasha Pieterse, imdb.com

Tagged: Escaping

“[narrating] Was it possible that at every gathering, concert, peace rally, love-in, be-in, freak-in, here up north, back east, where ever, some dark crews had been busy all along reclaiming the music, the resistance to power, the sexual desire from epic to everyday? All they could sweep up for the a…”

— Paul Thomas Anderson, Sortilège, Joanna Newsom, imdb.com

Tagged: love-in, peace rally, Sexual Desire

“[to Doc about Mickey Wolfmann] He's technically Jewish but wants to be a Nazi.”

— Paul Thomas Anderson, Aunt Reet, Jeannie Berlin, imdb.com

Tagged: Jewish, Nazi, Self-Hating Jews

“Shasta Fay Hepworth: It isn't what you're thinking, Doc. Doc Sportello: Don't worry. Thinking comes later. What else?”

— Paul Thomas Anderson, Shasta Fay Hepworth, Katherine Waterston, imdb.com

Tagged: Thinking, Don't Worry

“[referring to the police station] On principle he tried to spend as little time around the glass house as possible. All this strange alternative cop history and cop politics, cop dynasties, cop heroes and evil doers, saintly cops and psycho cops, cops too stupid to live and cops too smart for their…”

— Paul Thomas Anderson, Sortilège, Joanna Newsom, imdb.com

Tagged: Police, Cops, Loyalty, code of honor

“[to Doc and Sauncho] And to drink, gentlemen? You're going to want to get good and fucked-up before this meal!”

— Paul Thomas Anderson, imdb.com

Tagged: Drinking, getting fucked-up

“[opening lines] She came along the alley and up the back steps the way she always used to. Doc hadn't seen her for over a year. Nobody had. Back then it was always sandals, bottom half of a flower-print bikini, faded Country Joe & the Fish T-shirt. Tonight she was all in flatland gear, hair a lot sh…”

— Paul Thomas Anderson, Sortilège, Joanna Newsom, imdb.com

Tagged: Country Joe & The Fish, Bikini

“Back when they were together she could go weeks without anything more complicated than a pout. Now she was laying some heavy combination of face ingredients on Doc that he couldn't read at all.”

— Paul Thomas Anderson, Sortilège, Joanna Newsom, imdb.com

Tagged: pouting, Emotional Manipulation

“[Narrating] Doc ran through all the things he hadn't asked Shasta. Like how much she'd come to depend on Wolfmann's guaranteed level of ease and power? And least askable of all, how passionately did she really feel about old Mickey? Doc knew the likely reply, 'I love him', what else? With the unspok…”

— Paul Thomas Anderson, Sortilège, Joanna Newsom, imdb.com

Tagged: Interview, Love

“[narrating] Well Mornin' Sam, like a bad luck planet in today's horoscope, here's the old hippie-hating mad dog himself in the flesh: Lieutenant Detective Christian F. 'Bigfoot' Bjornsen. SAG member, John Wayne walk, flat top of Flintstone proportions and that evil, little shit-twinkle in his eye th…”

— Paul Thomas Anderson, Sortilège, Joanna Newsom, imdb.com

Tagged: Bad Luck, Flintstones, Horoscope

“[narrating] Inherent vice in a maritime insurance policy is anything that you can't avoid. Eggs break, chocolate melts, glass shatters, and Doc wondered what that meant when it applied to ex-old ladies.”

— Paul Thomas Anderson, Sortilège, Joanna Newsom, imdb.com

Tagged: insurance policies, chocolate, eggs, inherent vice

“People often ask questions they already know answers to. They just want to hear it from another voice. One outside their head.”

— Paul Thomas Anderson, imdb.com

Tagged: Advice, Movie