H A L L U C I N A T I O N

"we were somewhere around Barsow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold" book and movie beginning line

"it was nice to be loose and crazy with a good credit card (in a time when it was possible to run totally wild in Las Vegas and then get paid for it)" Hunter S. Thomson @ The Great Shark Hunt

Johnny Depp · Duke

Benicio del Toro · Gonzo

Christina Ricci · Lucy (in the sky with diamonds)

Cameron Diaz · TV Reporter

Harry Dean Stanton · judge

Tobey Maguire · Hitchhiker

Direction by Terry Gilliam

DoP · Nicola Pecorini

Production Designer · Alex McDowel

Costume Designer · Julie Weiss

Casting · Margery Simkin

"I've always considered writing the most hateful kind of work. I suspect it's a bit like fucking, which is only fun for amateurs. Old whores don't do much giggling. -Nothing is fun when you have to do it over and over, again and again-" Hunter S. Thomson @ The Great Shark Hunt

1998 · based on a book by Hunter S. Thomson · edited by The Criterion Collection