First look at Paul Thomas Anderson's Pynchon adaptation, Inherent Vice

Joaquin Phoenix stars alongside Josh Brolin and Reese Witherspoon in a marked change in tone from Andersons previous film with Phoenix, The Master

The first trailer has arrived for Paul Thomas Andersons new film Inherent Vice, and its immediately clear that its a huge tonal shift from his previous film The Master.

Each stars Joaquin Phoenix, but where in the previous film the actor played a brooding man desperate for human and spiritual connection, here hes quite the opposite: affable private detective Larry Sportello, getting drawn into a fractious love rectangle by an old flame. Anderson adapted Inherent Vice from the Thomas Pynchon novel of the same name, and it looks to have the writers humour... craziness and thoughtfulness, as the director has put it.

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