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Pee-wee's Big Adventure
Pee-wee Herman, an eccentric child-like man, loves his red bicycle and will not sell it to his envious neighbor, Francis. When his beloved bike is stolen in broad daylight, he sets out across the U.S. on the adventure of his life, determined to recover it.
12 September 1952
17 March 1971
1975, USA
23 December 1949, Los Angeles, California, USA
25 August 1958, Burbank, California, USA
23 April 1957, Decatur, Georgia, USA
11 September 1961, Los Angeles, California, USA
3 February 1950, Dallas, Texas, USA
27 December 1934, District of Columbia, USA
21 December 1912, USA
6 January 1930, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
1 March 1944, San Bernardino, California, USA
14 August 1909, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
14 December 1946, Los Angeles, California, USA
6 October 1930, USA
December 15, 1943 in Los Angeles, California, USA
17 September 1951, Manhattan, Kansas, USA
24 July 1934, Los Angeles County, California, USA
20 April 1933
November 01, 2014
Burton demonstrates his knack for building seemingly dynamic meta-worlds inside our own world, depicting Pee Wee's own journey as exciting, harrowing, and often times scary.February 09, 2010
Fair warning: this movie could induce terminal boredom in adults and rot the minds of the young.March 22, 2016
Tim Burton's first (and best) movie...October 04, 2012
The film's inventiveness is on display from the get-go.July 31, 2015
It's a true original -- a comedy maverick that looks and feels like no other movie I know.February 09, 2010
Reubens always lets us feel superior to his creation, and when his character slips, as it does more than once in this first feature outing, his own condescension shows through.February 09, 2010
Children should love the film and adults will be dismayed by the light brushstrokes with which Paul Reubens (one of three credited screenwriters, but star-billed under his stage name, Pee-wee Herman) suggests touches of Buster Keaton and Eddie Cantor.July 31, 2015
It's a bold attempt to do something dazzlingly original, although some of the gags are spectacularly unfunny and Pee-wee's nervous prattling can become irritating.October 14, 2011
A purely creative movie that one must admit has no equal in cinema history (for better or worse). [Blu-ray]May 20, 2003
You have been warned.August 27, 2012
Chiefly successful because of its commitment to an artistic ideal: make something that looks, talks, feels, and moves like a cartoon.February 09, 2006
Fed by comic tributaries perhaps, but Pee-Wee Herman comes over as a delightful original.