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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
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  • Rated: R
  • Closed captioning available
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 59 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: November 17, 1998
  • Originally Released: 1998
  • Label: Universal Studios

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AUDIENCE SCORE
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...A lucid hallucination. Depp again proves himself our most inventive actor....This movie isn't about drugs, it is drugs... -- Rating: B+
Entertainment Weekly
Nov 13, 1998
...Fiendish intensity...
Rolling Stone
Jun 25, 1998
...FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS throws you straight into a demented cinematic 'acid test'...
Sight and Sound
Nov 1, 1998
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
It's certainly distinctive, looking at times like Richard Lester put through a postmodernist blender. Full Review
Chicago Reader
May 2, 2012
4 stars out of 5 -- Depp and Del Toro couldn't be more perfect for the roles and throw themselves in without fear or hesitation.
Premiere
Feb 1, 2010
The one stand-out is Johnny Depp, who brings Hunter S Thompson to bald-headed, pigeon-toed life. Full Review
Independent (UK)
Mar 29, 2019

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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  • Sales Rank: 17,122
  • UPC: 025192033926
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