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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (2-DVD)
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  • Three Audio Commentary Tracks: Director Terry Gilliam, stars Johnny Depp and Benicio Del Toro
  • Deleted scenes with Commentary by Terry Gilliam
  • Collection of Storyboards and Production Designs
  • a Selection of Hunter S. Thompson Correspondence read by Johnny Depp
  • Documentaries Hunter Goes to Hollywood and the BBC's Fear and Loathing on the Way to Hollywood
  • Original Trailer and TV Spots
  • Booklet featuring two pieces by Thompson.
  • Number of Discs: 2
  • Rated: R
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 59 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: February 18, 2003
  • Originally Released: 1998
  • Label: Criterion

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 279,190
The film is intensely pretentious, far too clever for its own good. Full Review
Urban Cinefile
May 2, 2012
Rating: D+ -- Unless viewed through the prism of psychedelic habituates, it is unlikely audiences will find much to savour in Gilliam's picture.
Quickflix
Nov 24, 2014
...Fiendish intensity...
Rolling Stone
Jun 25, 1998
[A] shocking, funny and sad tale of idealism's demise en route.
Total Film
Jul 1, 2006
The flaccid film is a goon-show version of Thompson's commentary on the craziness of the American Dream. Full Review
Hollywood Reporter
May 22, 2019
Rating: C -- One of Terry Gilliam's worst films (almost unwatchable)
EmanuelLevy.Com
Jul 26, 2012
It's certainly distinctive, looking at times like Richard Lester put through a postmodernist blender. Full Review
Chicago Reader
May 2, 2012

Description by OLDIES.com:

It is 1971, and journalist Raoul Duke barrels towards Las Vegas to cover a motorcycle race, accompanied by a trunkful of contraband and his slightly unhinged Samoan attorney, Dr. Gonzo. But what is ostensibly a cut-and-dried journalistic endeavor quickly descends into a feverish psychedelic odyssey and an excoriating dissection of the American way of life. Director Terry Gilliam and an all-star cast show no mercy in bringing Hunter S. Thompson's legendary Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas to the screen, creating a film both hilarious and savage.

Product Description:

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. 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 in which Duke and Gonzo reside. 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.

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  • UPC: 715515013222
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