Inherent Vice

…detective Christian (“Bigfoot”) Bjornsen in Inherent Vice (2014), Paul Thomas Anderson’s adaptation of Thomas Pynchon’s novel about California’s counterculture.

…in Paul Thomas Anderson’s film Inherent Vice (2014), but her breakout came in Alexander Payne’s Downsizing (2017). Set in the near-future where a scientific process allows people to shrink their bodies to only 4 or 5 inches (10.2 to 12.7 centimeters) in height, Paul, a newly-shrunken man played by Matt…

Anderson then helmed Inherent Vice (2014), an adaptation of Thomas Pynchon’s darkly comic crime noir (2009). He also wrote the script, which was nominated for an Academy Award for best screenplay based on material previously produced or published. Anderson next wrote and directed Phantom Thread (2017), which starred…

…next movies—Anderson’s Thomas Pynchon adaptation Inherent Vice (2014), Woody Allen’s Irrational Man (2015), You Were Never Really Here (2017; best actor award at the Cannes film festival), Van Sant’s Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot (2018), Mary Magdalene (2018), and Jacques

Rudolph also acted in Anderson’s Inherent Vice (2014) and appeared alongside SNL alums Tina Fey and Poehler in Sisters (2015) and Wine Country (2019), Andy Samberg in Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping (2016), and Fred Armisen in the series Forever (2018). Her films from the late 2010s and early 2020s…

In Paul Thomas Anderson’s Inherent Vice (2014), adapted from the comic crime noir by Thomas Pynchon, she played the love interest of a private investigator (Joaquin Phoenix). The farcical Hot Pursuit (2015) featured Witherspoon as a straight-laced police officer who must protect the widow of a criminal. She later…