Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1998-05-22

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

118 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.7 (198691 Reviews)

Director:

Terry Gilliam

Genres:

Comedy

Cast:

Johnny Depp Benicio Del Toro Tobey Maguire Ellen Barkin

Writer:

Hunter S. Thompson (book)

Terry Gilliam (screenplay)

Tony Grisoni (screenplay)

Tod Davies (screenplay)

Alex Cox (screenplay)

Fullplot:

The big-screen version of Hunter S. Thompson's seminal psychedelic classic about his road trip across Western America as he and his large Samoan lawyer searched desperately for the "American dream"... they were helped in large part by the huge amount of drugs and alcohol kept in their convertible, The Red Shark.

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