A young woman, Shasta Fay (Katherine Waterston), walks to this home we are told she is the homeowner's 'ex-old lady' and 'Tonight she was all in flatland gear, hair a lot shorter than he remembered, looking just like she swore shed never look.' These are passages from Thomas Pynchon's novel and this eloquent prose is inserted throughout the movie. It is the year 1970 in Gordita Beach, a fictional town in Los Angeles. The movie opens on a rickety beach house. Meanwhile, Doc also agrees to search for Coy Harlingen (Owen Wilson), a reportedly deceased saxophone player who may not be as dead as rumors suggest, and who seems somehow tied to the ongoing Wolfmann investigation. Later, as clues to Wolfmann's disappearance begin to suggest a conspiracy involving the FBI and a mysterious underworld syndicate known as the Golden Fang, Doc seeks the help of his lawyer Sauncho Smilax, Esq. 'Bigfoot' Bjornsen (Josh Brolin), a part-time actor with a palpable disdain for the free-love generation, and a reputation for committing civil-rights violations. In the course of his investigation Doc butts heads with Lt.

Joaquin Phoenix stars as Larry 'Doc' Sportello, a pot-smoking private eye at the tail end of the psychedelic '60s who investigates a kidnapping case involving his old flame Shasta Fay Hepworth (Katherine Waterston) and her missing sugar daddy Mickey Wolfmann (Eric Roberts), a powerful real-estate mogul.

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