The Life And Work Of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson

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Hunter S. Thompson is a 2008 documentary film directed by Alex Gibney. It details Hunter S. Thompson's landmark writings on music and politics. Friends and family (including Tom Wolfe and Ralph Steadman) provide interviews to help describe the mythos of Hunter and his life.

Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
The Life And Work Of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
Theatrical release poster
Directed byAlex Gibney
Narrated byJohnny Depp
Production
company
Distributed byMagnolia Pictures
Release date
  • January 20, 2008 (2008-01-20) (Sundance Film Festival)
Running time
118 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

The film premiered on January 20 in the Documentary Competition at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival; it was released in US theaters on July 4, 2008, and released on DVD on November 18, 2008.

Release

The film was released in theaters in the US on July 4, 2008, and in the UK later that year. The DVD was released in November 2008. The film was premiered in January 2008 at the Sundance Film Festival.

Awards

The film was nominated for the Grand Jury prize in the documentary genre at the Sundance Film Festival, and for the Best Documentary Screenplay at the Writers' Guild of America awards in 2009. In 2009 The Gonzo album notes, co-authored by Johnny Depp and Douglas Brinkley, were nominated for a Grammy award.

Reception

The film received generally positive reviews, The Hollywood Reporter opining that "a biographical documentary doesn't get any better than this".New York magazine called the release "A tender, even-tempered elegy to a writer who at his peak could ingest staggering (literally) amounts of drugs and alcohol and transform, like Popeye after a can of spinach, into a superhuman version of himself—more trenchant, more cutting, more hilarious than any political journalist before or since."

The film received positive reviews from Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times and the Chicago Sun-Times, amongst others. Rotten Tomatoes lists a rating with 86% of critics recommending the film.

References

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