Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Director: Terry Gilliam

1998 / 118min / 35mm

Raoul Duke, Dr. Gonzo, and a stash containing just about every drug known to man hit Sin City in a red Chevy Impala for the mother of all freakouts in Gilliam’s appropriately maniacal, deliriously vulgar adaptation of Hunter S. Thompson’s 1971 roman à clef of the same name, starring Johnny Depp as Thompson’s literary alter ego and Benicio del Toro as his legal counsel, so to speak. “[Has] a scuzzy integrity of its own. There’s a good grasp of period, an impressive impersonation of the author-hero by an almost unrecognizable Johnny Depp… Like Richard Lester put through a postmodern blender… [Gilliam] skewers his native country with guts and zeal.” —Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader

Distributor: Universal

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