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Fanpage featuring sound clips, pictures, quotes, downloadable movie script, forum and information about the cast and director. This follows two drug fuelled characters as they get up to various exploits in and around las vegas. In a closed society where everybodys guilty, the only crime is getting caught. Fear and loathing in las vegas is a 1998 american psychedelic satirical black comedy road film adapted from hunter s. Thompsons fear and loathing in las vegas by troy little its been 45 years since raoul duke travelled across america with his attorney to cover a las vegas motorcycle race, only to lose himself in a drugcrazed miasma of trashed hotel rooms and a savage journey into the heart of the american dream.
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