“Inherent Vice,” the movie, will be shown four times on Saturday, October 4, 2014, at the 52nd New York Film Festival. At the Tully Hall viewings, director Paul Thomas Anderson and select cast members will be present.

The Festival’s website includes (actually, included – see below) this synopsis of the film:

In ‘Inherent Vice,’ when private eye Doc Sportello’s ex-old lady suddenly out of nowhere shows up with a story about her current billionaire land developer boyfriend whom she just happens to be in love with, and a plot by his wife and her boyfriend to kidnap that billionaire and throw him in a loony bin… well, easy for her to say.

It’s the tail end of the psychedelic ’60s and paranoia is running the day and Doc knows that “love” is another of those words going around at the moment, like “trip” or “groovy,” that’s being 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.

HOWEVER, I just now re-visited the Festival’s site and the above description has been replaced (!) by this completely different one:

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