'Inherent Vice' Movie Trailer, Release Date [VIDEO] Watch Joaquin Phoenix & Josh Brolin Take On Thomas Pynchon Novel Adaptation With Paul Thomas Anderson

One of the most anticipated films of the year is easily the Thomas Pynchon novel movie adaptation Inherent Vice from director Paul Thomas Anderson. This week we were treated to the first trailer for the film, featuring great performances from stars Joaquin Phoenix, Josh Brolin, Resse Witherspoon and many more. With a limited release date set for December 12, 2014 (a wide release is set for Jan. 2015), this new preview gives us just a taste of what's to come from this great movie.

If you're a fan of Anderson and/or Pynchon, you understand that this pairing is pretty perfect. In this new trailer, we learn that director Anderson and the cast were the perfect people o take on the project.

Check out the first trailer for Inherent Vice right here:

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Here is the official synopsis of Inherent Vice from Warner Bros. Picture (via Slash Film):

Inherent Vice is the seventh feature from Paul Thomas Anderson and the first film adaption of a Thomas Pynchon novel. When P.I. Doc Sportello's ex-old lady shows up with a story about her current billionaire land developer boyfriend and a plot by his wife and her boyfriend to kidnap that billionaire and throw him in a looney bin... well, easy for her to say. It's the tail end of the '60s, paranoia is running the day and Doc knows that "love" is one of those words going around, like "trip" or "groovy," that's way too overused-except this one usually leads to trouble. With a cast of characters that includes surfers, hustlers, dopers and rockers, a murderous loan shark, LAPD Detectives, a tenor sax player working undercover and a mysterious entity known as the Golden Fang, which may only be a tax dodge set up by some dentists... Part surf noir, part psychedelic romp-all Thomas Pynchon.