Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride: Hunter S. Thompson on Film (2006)

User Rating:

7.0/10   

Director:

Tom Thurman

Writer:

Tom Marksbury (writer)

Release Date:

12 December 2006 (USA)

Genre:

Documentary

Plot:

A documentary on the life and death of Hunter S. Thompson.

Cast

Ed Bradley	...	Himself
Bob Braudis	...	Himself
Douglas Brinkley	...	Himself
William F. Buckley	...	Himself
Gary Busey	...	Himself
John Cusack	...	Himself
Benicio Del Toro	...	Himself
Johnny Depp	...	Himself
F.X. Feeney	...	Himself
Gary Hart	...	Himself
Art Linson	...	Himself
Leonard Maltin	...	Himself
George McGovern	...	Himself
Bill Murray	...	Himself
Laila Nabulsi	...	Herself
Nick Nolte	...	Narrator
Sean Penn	...	Himself
Harry Dean Stanton	...	Himself
Ralph Steadman	...	Himself
Anita Thompson	...	Herself
Hunter S. Thompson	...	Himself (archive footage)
Juan Thompson	...	Himself
Nick Tosches	...	Himself
Jann Wenner	...	Himself
Tom Wolfe	...	Himself

Runtime:

73 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

New Zealand:M

Company:

FBN Productions

Movie Connections:

Features Where the Buffalo Roam (1980)

Disappointing

Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride (2006)

** 1/2 (out of 4)

Tom Thurman directs this documentary of Hunter S. Thompson who everyone will have a different opinion on. I watched this hoping to learn a little about the man and I did learn something but it was very little. It seems the director was more interested in hearing various stories about the man instead of trying to find out why he was the way he was. Ed Bradley, Gary Busey, John Cusack, Benicio Del Toro, Johnny Depp, Leonard Maltin, Bill Murray, Harry Dean Stanton and Sean Penn are all interviewed and Nick Nolte narrates.