Sentences with phrase «private eye doc»

Its labyrinthine plot takes in three separate but just - about interconnected mysteries, with Joaquin Phoenix's shambolic private eye Doc Sportello pulling on all the threads from somewhere on the outskirts of the tangled web.

Joaquin Phoenix plays private eye Doc Sportello in the second trailer for Inherent Vice, with advanced screenings set for December 13th.

Bigfoot Bjornsen (Brolin) hates hippies and pot - smoking private eye Doc Sportello (Joaquin Phoenix) is at the top of his list, even though the two seem to share an odd buddy dynamic despite their differences.

Adapted from Thomas Pynchon's 2009 novel, the film follows private eye Doc Sportello (Joaquin Phoenix), whose life is disrupted by the appearance of his ex-old lady from out of nowhere.

When private eye Doc Sportello's ex-old lady suddenly out of nowhere shows up with a story about her current billionaire land developer boyfriend whom she just happens to be in love with, and a plot by his wife and her boyfriend to kidnap that billionaire and throw him in a looney bin... well, easy for her to say.

As pothead private eye Doc Sportello, Joaquin Phoenix is grubby, raunchy and amusing throughout.

A stylish new «Ultimate»70s» trailer has arrived online for Paul Thomas Anderson's latest film Inherent Vice, and we have it for you below... When private eye Doc Sportello's (Joaquin Phoenix) ex-old lady suddenly out of nowhere shows up with a story about her current billionaire land developer boyfriend whom she just happens to be -LSB-...]

Not exact matches

His Larry «Doc» Sportello, a joint - smoking private eye in mutton chops and beachwear, isn't the tragic, tormented figure of The Master or the mercenary pimp with the glimmer of a soul in The Immigrant but he is equally unique, a man in his own universe that happens to cross paths with ours.

«Go back to the beach, you smell like a patchouli fart,» growls Josh Brolin's flat - topped L.A. detective, Bigfoot Bjornsen, to our dazed hero, Doc (Joaquin Phoenix), an unlikely private eye but one you can't help rooting for.

growls Josh Brolin's flat - topped L.A. detective, Bigfoot Bjornsen, to our dazed hero, Doc (Joaquin Phoenix), an unlikely private eye, but one you can't help rooting for.

Wide - eyed and whacked out on the funny weed, Doc Sportello (Joaquin Phoenix) is a mind - fried private eye from sunny Southern California trying to make sense of a series of incidents involving, in no particular order: a spacey former girlfriend (Katherine Waterston); a missing real - estate mogul (Eric Roberts); a deceased saxophonist who apparently is not, in fact, deceased (Owen Wilson); a coke - snorting dentist with a libido in overdrive (Martin Short); a porno - parlor proprietress (Hong Chau); a bullying cop with hair cropped in a fearsome flattop (Josh Brolin); a cultlike rehab center; risqué neckties; a big, fat heroin stash; a mysterious sailboat and a torture chamber.

Like the book, the film follows the perpetually high hippie - cum - private - eye Larry «Doc» Sportello attempting to uncover a vague conspiracy involving a vanished ex-girlfriend, a kidnapped millionaire, Asian drug runners, evil dentists, powerful land - owners, corrupt cops, surf - musician stoners and a host of other warped Me - Decade denizens.

We are given no simple backstory to explain why «Doc» Sportello — so named because he runs his illicit private eye business out of the back room of a medical clinic, and played by Phoenix with a somewhat more subdued energy than the ferocious kind he brought to his character in The Master — comes off as so deeply dislocated from the main fabric of American life.

«Go back to the beach, you smell like a patchouli fart,» growls Josh Brolin's flat - topped LA detective, Bigfoot Bjornsen, to our dazed hero, Doc (Joaquin Phoenix), an unlikely private eye, but one you can't help rooting for.

This mystery, set at the roach - end of the 1960s and starring Doc Sportello, sole proprietor of LSD Investigations, can pretty much be summed up by this quote: «A private eye didn't drop acid for years in this town without picking up some kind of extrasensory chops.»