Pee-wee's Big Adventure
Pee-wee Herman has a heavily accessorized bicycle that he treasures and that his neighbor, Francis Buxton, covets. A bike shop employee, Dottie, has a crush on Pee-wee, but he does not reciprocate it. Pee-wee's bike is stolen while he is shopping at a mall. The police tell Pee-wee that they cannot help him find his bike. Pee-wee thinks Francis took it, and confronts him. Francis' father convinces Pee-wee that Francis did not steal the bike. Pee-wee then offers a $10,000 reward for his bike. Francis, who did indeed pay to have someone steal the bike, is frightened by Pee-wee's relentlessness and then pays to have it sent away. After holding an unsuccessful meeting to locate the bike, Pee-wee angrily rejects Dottie's offers of help. Desperate, he visits "Madam Ruby", a phony psychic. Ruby, inspired by the Al and Moe's Bargain Basement shop across the street, tells Pee-wee that his bike is in the basement of the Alamo Mission in San Antonio. Pee-wee hitchhikes to Texas, getting rides from a fugitive, Mickey; and from Large Marge, the ghost of a deceased truck driver.
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MPAA Rating: | PG |
Genre: | Adventure, Comedy, Family |
Country: | United States |
Produced By: | Richard Gilbert Abramson, Robert Shapiro, William E. Mceuen |
Directed By: | Tim Burton |
Written By: | Phil Hartman, Paul Reubens, Michael Varhol |
Cast: | Gregory Brown, John O'Neill, Ed Herlihy, Jon Harris, Robert Hegyes, Alex Sharp, Michael Varhol, Tom Willett, Mark Holton, Damon Martin, John Paragon, Mark Everett, Ralph Seymour, Lou Cutell, Carmen Filpi, Tony Bill, David Rothenberg, Raymond Martino, Patrick Cranshaw, Alice Nunn, Erica Yohn, Bob McClurg, Daryl Keith Roach, Lonnie Parkinson, Monte Landis, Luis Contreras, Elizabeth Daily, Peter Looney, John Moody, Judd Omen, John Gilgreen, Phil Hartman, Jan Rabson, Sunshine Parker, Diane Salinger, Bill Cable, Starletta DuPois, Noreen Hennessey, Susan Barnes, Paul Reubens, Howard Hirdler, Simmy Bow, Jason Hervey, Professor Toru Tanaka, George Sasaki, Bob Drew, Chester Grimes, Cleve Hall, Tim Burton, Terry Bolo, Lynne Marie Stewart, Bill W. Richmond, Richard Brose, Cassandra Peterson, Jan Hooks, David Glasser, Irving Hellman, Zack Hoffman |
In Theaters: | Aug 09, 1985 |
Runtime: | 1 hour 31 minutes |
Production: | Warner Bros., Aspen Film Society |
Box Office: | $40,900,000 |
Available On: | Netflix |