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DVD Details
- 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
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Benicio Del Toro & Johnny Depp | |
Performer: | Christina Ricci, Tobey Maguire, Ellen Barkin, Cameron Diaz, Gary Busey & Lyle Lovett | |
Directed by | Terry Gilliam | |
Screenwriting by | Terry Gilliam, Tod Davies, Alex Cox & Tony Grisoni | |
Produced by | Patrick Cassavetti & Stephen Nemeth | |
Director of Photography: | Nicola Pecorini |
Entertainment Reviews:
...A lucid hallucination. Depp again proves himself our most inventive actor....This movie isn't about drugs, it is drugs... -- Rating: B+
Entertainment Weekly
...Fiendish intensity...
Rolling Stone
...FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS throws you straight into a demented cinematic 'acid test'...
Sight and Sound
Rating: D+ --
Unless viewed through the prism of psychedelic habituates, it is unlikely audiences will find much to savour in Gilliam's picture.
Quickflix
It's certainly distinctive, looking at times like Richard Lester put through a postmodernist blender.
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Chicago Reader
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
The one stand-out is Johnny Depp, who brings Hunter S Thompson to bald-headed, pigeon-toed life.
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Independent (UK)
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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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 17,122
- UPC: 025192033926
- Shipping Weight: 0.15/lbs (approx)
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