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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Universal Studios
CAST
Raoul Duke........................................JOHNNY DEPP
Dr. Gonzo....................................BENICIO DEL TORO
Lacerda..........................................CRAIG BIERKO
Lucy..........................................CHRISTINA RICCI
North Star Waitress..............................ELLEN BARKEN
Hitchiker.......................................TOBEY MAQUIRE
Highway Patrolman..................................GARY BUSEY
Blonde TV Reporter..............................CARMERON DIAZ
Magazine Reporter.................................MARK HARMON
L. Ron Bumquist.................................MICHAEL JETER
Judge......................................HARRY DEAN STANTON
Musician.................................................FLEA
Reservations Clerk..........................KATHERINE HELMOND
Carnie Talker...................................PENN JILLETTE
Road Person......................................LYLE LOVETTE
Cameo......................................HUNTER S. THOMPSON
A TERRY GILLIAM FILM
Director........................................TERRY GILLIAM
Exective Producers.............................HAROLD BRONSON
...........................................PATRICK CASSAVETTI
.................................................RICHARD FOOS
Associate Producer...............................JOHN JERGENS
Co-Producers....................................LAILA NABULSI
...............................................STEPHEN NEMETH
......................................ELLIOT LEWIS ROSENBLATT
Screenplay......................................TERRY GILLIAM
.................................................TONY GRISONI
...................................................TOD DAVIES
.....................................................ALEX COX
Based on The Book by.......................HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Cinematogarpher..............................NICOLA PERCORINI
Production Designer............................ALEX MC DOWELL
Costume Designer..................................JULIE WEISS
Editor..........................................LESLEY WALKER
Music...........................................RAY COOPER II
................................................MICHAEL KAMEN
FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS, the film based on the book of the same name by Hunter S. Thompson, chronicles a psychedelic odyssey undertaken by Thompson's alter-ego Raoul Duke and his attorney in 1971. The acid/opiate/ether-eating writer is to cover a motor bike race in the Nevada desert and a law enforcement convention at a Vegas hotel, but his drug-effused observations take center stage, proving the addage that life, compiled of perceptions and day-long minutia, is a journey, not a destination. His articles are only to cover and, consequently, they
become a more interesting story-within-a-story. Carpet patterns wriggle and writhe, a congregation of lounge lizards metamorphoses into actual reptiles, and hypocrisy and the absurdity of the human condition become ironic commentary in which the participants in the druggie experience see with better clarity through what is supposed to be a stuporous veil than those who are straight and sober. Elevating the term "road trip" to new heights, the film, to borrow Raoul Duke's description of his attorney, is "too weird to live, too rare to die".
[Synopsis by Lori King, NC - Writer/Filmmaker]
  
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