Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 149 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
The story
In Los Angeles at the turn of the 1970s, drug-fueled detective Larry "Doc" Sportello investigates the disappearance of an ex-girlfriend.
- california
- based on novel or book
- boat
- detective
- 1970s
- ex-girlfriend
- surreal
- vice
- hippie lifestyle
- pot smoking
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Joaquin Phoenix
Larry "Doc" Sportello
Josh Brolin
Lt. Det. Christian F. "Bigfoot" Bjornsen
Owen Wilson
Coy Harlingen
Katherine Waterston
Shasta Fay Hepworth
- Reese Witherspoon — Deputy D.A. Penny Kimball
- Benicio del Toro — Sauncho Smilax, Esq.
- Jena Malone — Hope Harlingen
- Joanna Newsom — Sortilège, who is also the narrator
- Jordan Christian Hearn — Denis
- Hong Chau — Jade
- Jeannie Berlin — Aunt Reet
- Maya Rudolph — Petunia Leeway
- Michael Kenneth Williams — Tariq Khalil
- Martin Short — Dr. Rudy Blatnoyd, D.D.S.
- Sasha Pieterse — Japonica Fenway
- Directed
- Paul Thomas Anderson
- Written
- Paul Thomas Anderson
Production
- Rating
- 6.5 / 10 · 2,761 ratings
- Studio
- Warner Bros. Pictures, IAC Films, JoAnne Sellar Productions, Ghoulardi Film Company, RatPac Entertainment
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
