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19 December 2008 (UK)
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A portrait of the late gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson. full summary | add synopsis
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2 nominations
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(3 articles)
Allen Lands 19th Screenplay Nomination
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Writers Guild of America Nominations
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Story of a contradiction
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Cast
(Credited cast) | Hunter S. Thompson | ... | Himself (archive footage) |
 | Johnny Depp | ... | Himself - Narrator |
| Joe Cairo | ... | New York Studio Shoot |
| David Carlo | ... | New York Studio Shoot |
| Victor Ortiz | ... | New York Studio Shoot |
| Gilleon Smith | ... | New York Studio Shoot |
 | Alex Ziwak | ... | New York Studio Shoot |
| Melissa Otero | ... | New York Studio Shoot - Typist |
| Pierre Adeli | ... | Taco Stand Shoot |
| Angela Berliner | ... | Taco Stand Shoot |
 | Eugenia Care | ... | Taco Stand Shoot |
 | Brian Kimmet | ... | Taco Stand Shoot |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Oscar Acosta | ... | Himself (archive footage) |
 | Muhammad Ali | ... | Himself (archive footage) |
| Sonny Barger | ... | Himself (also archive footage) |
 | Warren Beatty | ... | Himself (archive footage) |
| Bob Braudis | ... | Himself |
| Douglas Brinkley | ... | Himself |
| Pat Buchanan | ... | Himself |
| Jimmy Buffett | ... | Himself (also archive footage) |
 | George W. Bush | ... | Himself (archive footage) (as George Bush) |
| Patrick Caddell | ... | Himself (as Pat Caddell) |
| Jimmy Carter | ... | Himself (also archive footage) |
| Tim Crouse | ... | Himself (also archive footage) |
| Richard J. Daley | ... | Himself - 1968 Convention (archive footage) (as Mayor Daley) |
| Thomas Eagleton | ... | Himself (archive footage) |
| Gary Hart | ... | Himself (also archive footage) |
| Hubert H. Humphrey | ... | Himself (archive footage) (as Hubert Humphrey) |
| Jefferson Airplane | ... | Themselves (archive footage) |
 | John F. Kennedy | ... | Himself (archive footage) |
| Robert F. Kennedy | ... | Himself (archive footage) (as Robert Kennedy) |
| Ted Kennedy | ... | Himself (archive footage) |
 | Martin Luther King | ... | Himself (archive footage) |
| Timothy Leary | ... | Himself (archive footage) |
| Annie Leibovitz | ... | Herself (archive footage) |
| Frank Mankiewicz | ... | Himself (archive footage) |
| George McGovern | ... | Himself (also archive footage) |
| Edmund Muskie | ... | Himself (archive footage) |
| Laila Nabulsi | ... | Herself |
| Richard Nixon | ... | Himself (archive footage) |
| Charles Perry | ... | Himself |
| Grace Slick | ... | Herself (archive footage) |
| Ralph Steadman | ... | Himself (also archive footage) |
| George Stranahan | ... | Himself |
| Anita Thompson | ... | Herself |
| Juan Thompson | ... | Himself (also archive footage) |
| George Wallace | ... | Himself - Assassination Attempt (archive footage) |
| Jann Wenner | ... | Himself (also archive footage) |
| Tom Wolfe | ... | Himself |
| Sondi Wright | ... | Herself |
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Rated R for drug and sexual content, language and some nudity.
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120 min
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Australia:M |
Canada:14A (British Columbia) |
Canada:14A (Ontario) |
UK:15 |
Ireland:15A |
Argentina:16 |
Netherlands:12
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Factual errors: When the film mentions that Hunter Thompson had a crush on Jefferson Airplane singer Grace Slick, archival footage instead shows the Airplane's first female singer, Signe Anderson.
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Hunter S. Thompson was an often astute commentator of American life, and an always astute commentator of his own mental disintegration, a process driven by his own enthusiastic use of mind-altering drugs; a gun freak who opposed American involvement in Vietnam; and a critic of capitalism who became, pretty much, the living embodiment of his own brand. He also, years after his best work was done, died by shooting himself. This documentary provides insight into his strange journey, which does have a tragic dimension: the values of the life he lived, the adulation he received for living it and the damage it did to him appear in the end inseparable. By the end, he was still celebrated (by new generations of kids who love to get high) but no longer relevant, his final act a desperate (and arguably failed) plea for attention. This documentary tells us much of the story, mostly interestingly, though there are times when it fails to disentangle the process it describes, the overwhelming of man by self-created myth. Still, while it's the prerogative of every generation to feel jaded, I find it hard to imagine another figure like Hunter emerging today, if only because a large part of his quality was that no-one expected him. But the film reminds you of another part as well: he could certainly write.