Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
1998 · Movie · 118 min. · United States
An adaptation of Hunter S. Thompson's novel of the same name. The film details a whacky search for the "American Dream", by Thompson and his crazed, Samoan lawyer. Fueled by the massive amount of drugs they purchased with an advance from a magazine to cover a sporting event in Vegas; they set out in the Red Shark. Encountering police, reporters, gamblers, racers, and hitchhikers; they search for some undefinable thing know only as the "American Dream" and find fear, loathing and hilarious adventures into the dementia of the modern American West.
Direction Terry Gilliam
Cast Johnny Depp · Benicio del Toro · Craig Bierko · Tobey Maguire · Michael Jeter · Ellen Barkin · Christina Ricci · Gary Busey · Cameron Diaz · Jenette Goldstein · Christopher Meloni · Katherine Helmond · Mark Harmon · Harry Dean Stanton
Soundtrack Ray Cooper
Screenplay Tony Grisoni · Terry Gilliam · Hunter S. Thompson
Cinematography Nicola Pecorini
Original title Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
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