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  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release Date: 07/04/2008
  • Running Time: 118 mins
  • Director: Alex Gibney
  • Cast: Hunter S. Thompson, Anita Thompson, Bob Braudis, Charles Perry, Douglas Brinkley, Gary Hart, George McGovern, George Stranahan, Jann Wenner, Johnny Depp
  • Producer: Alex Gibney, Graydon Carter, Jason Kliot, Joana Vincente, Eva Orner, Allison Ellwood
  • Writer: Alex Gibney
  • Distributor: Magnolia Pictures
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Movie Title, Weekly Earnings, Total Earnings

Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson

A tightly wound bundle of everything and its opposite—an anti-authoritarian who ran for sheriff of Aspen, a peace-loving gun nut, an iconoclast who relished winners as much as any football coach—the late Hunter S. Thompson pioneered what might be called psychic-war correspondence: corrosive inner dispatches from the long goodbye of '60s idealism. Alex Gibney's fascinating doc makes Thompson a complex, looming presence, using the author's words (read by Johnny Depp) as rueful commentary. Buttressed by interviews with his collaborators (including illustrator Ralph Steadman), archival snippets, and vintage Thompson footage, the bulk of Gibney's film is devoted to just three books: Hell's Angels, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, and his last major work, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72—a trilogy that made Thompson a counterculture idol as well as a literal and figurative cartoon character. As director, Gibney (Taxi to the Dark Side) relies too often on glib simplification and smirky music montages of social unrest. But by refocusing attention on Thompson's blazing gift, however unevenly it burned, Gonzo reclaims him from the fate he described for the Angels: "The mystique was stretched so thin it finally became transparent." — Jim Ridley

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