***  Movies - Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas ***
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 General  
 Produced by   Rhino Films
  Runtime   119 minutes
  Certification   R
  Cast  
  Christina Ricci  Lucy
  Jonny Depp  Raoul Duke
  Benicio Del Toro  Dr. Gonzo
  Ellen Barkin  North Star Waitress
  Gary Busey  Highway Patrolman
  Cameron Diaz  Blonde TV Reporter
  Mark Harmon  Lacerda
  Credits  
  Director   Terry Gilliam
  Producers   Harold Bronson;
    Patrick Cassavetti;
    Richard Foos;
    Stephen Nemeth;
    Elliot Lewis Rosenblatt.
  Screenplay   Hunter S. Thompson;
    Terry Gilliam;
    Alex Cox.
  Photography   Steve Arnold
  Editor   Lesley Walker
  Music   Ray Cooper
  Costumes   Julie Weiss
  Assistant director   Philip Patterson
 
  Summary Made with help from others
  The film details a whacky search for the "American Dream", by Thompson
and his crazed, Samoan lawyer. Fueled by the massive amount of drugs they
purchased with an advance from a magazine to cover a sporting event in Vegas;
they set out in the Red Shark. Encountering police, reporters, gamblers, racers
and hitchhikers; they search for some undefinable thing know only as the
"American Dream" and find fear, loathing and hilarious adventures into the
dementia of the modern American West.