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Release Date
• USA: May 22, 1998
DVD Release Date
• R1: Nov 17, 1998
Budget $18,500,000
Running Time
1 hour, 58 minutes
Country USA
Production Companies
Fear and Loathing LLC, Rhino Films, Shark Productions, Summit Entertainment, Universal Pictures
Studio Rhino Entertainment
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• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)
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Genre: Crime, Adventure, Drama, Comedy, Drugs, On The Road, Culture Clash, Scams And Cons, Satire, Disturbing, Buddies, Experimental, Black Comedy, True Story, Surreal, Cult Classic, Law
Tagline: Give us your brain for two hours and you will never be the same again.....(Icelandic)
Plot: Journalist Raoul Duke (Johnny Depp) heads to Las Vegas to cover a motorcycle race, bringing along his Samoan lawyer, Dr. Gonzo (Benicio Del Toro), in this furious adaptation of the book by Hunter S. Thompson. It is 1971, and Duke and Gonzo are on their way to Sin City with a frightened hitchhiker (a nearly unrecognizable Tobey Maguire) and a trunkful of drugs, which they ingest nonstop. Depp is terrific as Duke, Thompson's alter ego, and Del Toro is a riot as the crazy lawyer. To perfect his Thompsonian performance, Depp spent a lot of time with the good doctor, and it paid off in a film that captures the frenetic pace of the counterculture novel. Director Terry Gilliam, a master of complex, bizarre visual imagery, has a field day interpreting the drug-hazed world that Duke and Gonzo reside in. An all-star cast chimes in with wonderfully offbeat bit parts, including Harry Dean Stanton, Gilliam regular Katherine Helmond, Flea, Cameron Diaz, Ellen Barkin, Christina Ricci, Gary Busey, Lyle Lovett, and others. FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS is a whirlwind of a movie, a wacky, drug-laden story backed by a fist-pumping rock & roll soundtrack featuring everything from Wayne Newton and Tom Jones to Combustible Edison and Dead Kennedys.
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Terry Gilliam
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