A documentary on the infamous gonzo journalist, Dr. Hunter S. Thompson.A documentary on the infamous gonzo journalist, Dr. Hunter S. Thompson.A documentary on the infamous gonzo journalist, Dr. Hunter S. Thompson.
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Tod Davies
- Self
- (as Todd Davies)
Lyle Lovett
- Self
- (voice)
Eugene McCarthy
- Self
- (as Sen. Eugene McCarthy)
George McGovern
- Self
- (as Senator George McGovern)
Mary McGrory
- Self
- (as Mary McGory)
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Did you know
- TriviaIncluded with the 2019 Arrow Video limited edition blu ray release of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
- Quotes
[Hunter tries to do his trick of tossing a whiskey bottle in the air and catching it neatly in his hand, but he fails to catch it and has also left the top off, spilling whiskey everywhere, including on Johnny Depp]
Hunter S. Thompson: I was hoping it would come around faster, y'know.
- ConnectionsEdited into Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride: Hunter S. Thompson on Film (2006)
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I am posting the following as a challenge to the "most useful" comment, which states that this film should be reserved for Doc's "die-hard fans".
Firstly, I find the idea of excluding this rare bit of succulent meat in a world of dry bones and paper napkins is blasphemy in the truest sense against all Hunter S. Thompson stood for. True, a die-hard fan will rejoice in letting the juices run down their chin, but truer, damned be the man who proclaims to be holier than thou! If this film seems scattered, frantic, and mindlessly compiled, let it be because the man who it rejoices wanted it so. It is a perfect embodiment of what we can only imagine his hectic mind must have been like inside. Bits and Pieces of a so far gone world and life and place he could not find, and understood those with half a brain could not ourselves.
I don't believe that Thompson had any illusions of grandeur and perhaps thought a fool any man who had them in his favor. He knew what he meant to the people he meant it to, and wanted nothing more than to be respected and understood to be the great writer he was by any outsider. This man is a damn good writer. period. Do not be shamed away if you are unexposed. It's here for everyone.
This film embraces the character the man was. It allows others to embrace it, and maybe open the door to their awareness of a renegade, gonzo journalist. It takes you from his home life, to ridiculous nightlife, enraged attacks by the Doc on misunderstanding and oblivious Hollywood types, and hilarious pranks on those he knows the best.
The door opened here, is smoky, loud, brass and uncouth. It leads to a world we don't like to look at but exists. It's your world, seen through the eyes of an old burned out man, who saw and did and lived things you can only imagine.
Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride. You'll be glad you did.
Firstly, I find the idea of excluding this rare bit of succulent meat in a world of dry bones and paper napkins is blasphemy in the truest sense against all Hunter S. Thompson stood for. True, a die-hard fan will rejoice in letting the juices run down their chin, but truer, damned be the man who proclaims to be holier than thou! If this film seems scattered, frantic, and mindlessly compiled, let it be because the man who it rejoices wanted it so. It is a perfect embodiment of what we can only imagine his hectic mind must have been like inside. Bits and Pieces of a so far gone world and life and place he could not find, and understood those with half a brain could not ourselves.
I don't believe that Thompson had any illusions of grandeur and perhaps thought a fool any man who had them in his favor. He knew what he meant to the people he meant it to, and wanted nothing more than to be respected and understood to be the great writer he was by any outsider. This man is a damn good writer. period. Do not be shamed away if you are unexposed. It's here for everyone.
This film embraces the character the man was. It allows others to embrace it, and maybe open the door to their awareness of a renegade, gonzo journalist. It takes you from his home life, to ridiculous nightlife, enraged attacks by the Doc on misunderstanding and oblivious Hollywood types, and hilarious pranks on those he knows the best.
The door opened here, is smoky, loud, brass and uncouth. It leads to a world we don't like to look at but exists. It's your world, seen through the eyes of an old burned out man, who saw and did and lived things you can only imagine.
Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride. You'll be glad you did.
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- seafoam_mouse
- Jul 28, 2005
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By what name was Breakfast with Hunter (2003) officially released in Canada in English?
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