GONZO: THE LIFE & WORK OF DR. HUNTER S. THOMPSON

**Ends Thursday, August 28th**

"GONZO is as energetically flawed and rivetingly reckless as its subject, and somehow that seems exactly right." - James Rocchi, CINEMATICAL

"Four stars! The most absorbing film, fiction or non-fiction, I have seen this year. Alex Gibney and collaborators have surpassed even the much honored Enron and Taxi to the Dark Side. GONZO is a must see for everyone." - Andrew Sarris, THE NEW YORK OBSERVER

From Oscar-winning director Alex Gibney (Taxi to the Dark Side) comes this fast moving, wildly entertaining look into the uncanny life of national treasure and gonzo journalist Dr. Hunter S. Thompson.
Few writers have attained the notoriety of the good Dr. Thompson. His legendary status is due as much to his scintillating writing as his outrageous antics. He became a living legend whose persona often overshadowed his work. However, Thompson's steadfast ability to remain true to his convictions created an entirely new style of journalism, dubbed "gonzo," and has solidified his place in history as one of America's most influential writers and rebels. Fueled by a raging libido, Wild Turkey, and superhuman doses of drugs, Thompson was a true iconoclast: goring sacred cows with impunity, hilarity, and a steely-eyed obsession to right wrongs. Focusing on the good doctor's heyday--from 1965 to 1975--the film also includes clips of never-before-seen (and heard) home movies and audiotapes, and passages from unpublished manuscripts.
Director Alex Gibney intelligently interviews a broad spectrum of Thompson's peers and paints a three-dimensional portrait that reveals what a larger-than-life icon he was, a man whose actions both attracted and repelled the people closest to him.
At times as gonzo as its subject, the film addresses the major touchstones in Thompson’s life—his intense and ill fated relationship with the Hell’s Angels, his near-successful bid for the office of sheriff in Aspen in 1970, the notorious story behind the landmark Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, his deep involvement in Senator George McGovern’s 1972 presidential campaign, and much more.
Narrated by Johnny Depp.

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