Stars: Cameron Diaz, Gary Busey, Johnny Depp, Christina Ricci, Benicio Del Toro

Director: Terry Gilliam

Summary: A journalist and his partner on assignment wind-up in Las Vegas where they begin a mad tour loaded with mind-bending drugs.

FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS is a whirlwind of a movie, a wacky, drug-laden story backed by a fist-pumping rock and 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 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. Includes book.

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Aspect Ratio:	2.35 Anamorphic Wide Screen
Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Special Features:	Book
Year:	1998
Release Date:	September 8, 2008
Runtime:	113 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	8256765
Keywords:	Fear, English, Comedy, General, Vegas, Las, Loathing
Genre:	Comedy