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Witherspoon, Phoenix reunite for crime drama

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Actors Reese Witherspoon and Joaquin Phoenix will reportedly team up again for a crime thriller, to be directed by Paul Thomas.

The popular duo was last seen together in the 2005 movie "Walk The Line", for which Witherspoon even won a best actress Academy Award.

They are now set for a big screen reunion in upcoming movie "Inherent Vice", reports dailystar.co.uk.

The film is based on Thomas Pynchon's 2009 novel of the same name, with Phoenix playing a pot-smoking private detective named Doc Sportello, working a missing persons case in 1970s Los Angeles.

Others who will feature in the movie are Martin Short, Owen Wilson and Benicio Del Toro.

 

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First Published: May 18 2013 | 8:43 AM IST

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