Shaggy private eye Doc Sportello (Joaquin Phoenix) is visited by his ex-girlfriend (Katherine Waterston) with a story about her billionaire boyfriend who may be the target of a conspiracy. Paul Thomas Anderson's psychedelically funny adaptation of Thomas Pynchon's novel is a stoned, sun-baked meditation on the end of the 1960s dream — set in Los Angeles in 1970, as Manson's shadow falls over the counterculture. Featuring Joaquin Phoenix's most physically committed comic performance, alongside Josh Brolin, Reese Witherspoon, Owen Wilson, and Martin Short.