Pee-Wee's Big Adventure

Director: Tim Burton, Tim Burton, Tim Burton, Tim Burton, Tim Burton, Tim Burton

1985 / 91min / 35mm

The story of one man-child’s search for his red bicycle, Burton’s more-than-distinctive directorial debut is a rocky road trip studded with wild and weird 1950s-by-way-of-the-1980s Americana, including urban legend-ready truck drivers, rowdy biker gangs, and bigger-than-life tourist trap dinosaurs, all encountered en route to a last stand at the Alamo. Sweeter and much stranger than you may remember, with Burton’s manic invention matched by Paul Reubens’s inimitable star turn.