Joaquin Phoenix plays a stoner private detective against the backdrop of 1970s Californian hippie culture in this adaptation of Thomas Pynchon's darkly comic novel.

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...