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Critic Angie Errigo
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...a tale of persistence, prodigious excess, politics and peyote.

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Cast & Crew

Alex Gibney
Director
Alex Gibney
Writer
Johnny Depp
As Narrator (voice)
Muhammad Ali
As Self
Warren Beatty
As Self
Hunter S. Thompson
As Self (archive footage)

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