Academy Awards, USA 2015
| Nominee Oscar | Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay Paul Thomas Anderson |
| Best Achievement in Costume Design Mark Bridges |
Warner Bros.
Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson
My rating: 3 stars out of 4
IMDb Wikipedia
(Blu-ray, Warner Bros.)
Joaquin Phoenix is a private detective in LA who operates out of a doctor's office and lives in a beach house. He lives the typical hippie lifestyle, taking drugs and wearing strange clothes. His ex-girlfriend goes missing after confessing that she was approached by her wealthy boyfriend's wife to participate in a scheme to get him sent to an asylum. He is also hired by an ex-heroin addict to find her missing husband. Tips from the police and others lead to an international drug cartel. His police contact tries to frame him by planting heroin in his trunk, but instead he arranges to return it to the drug cartel in exchange for the missing husband. He reunites with his missing girlfriend when she shows up unannounced at his beach house. Much like the Thomas Pynchon novel on which it is based, this is a long, rambling, mostly incoherent but never boring story of sex and drugs set in the 1970 underground stoner culture of southern California.
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