Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure

Theatrical - Wide 1985-08-09

Cast Paul Reubens Elizabeth Daily Mark Holton Diane Salinger
Directed by Tim Burton
Written by Phil Hartman Paul Reubens Michael Varhol

Genres: Comedy Family

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Pee-wee’s bicycle, a material object he desires above all human relationships, is stolen. The journey he is forced to make exposes him to the land that suburbia forgot, a mythical working-class America filled with truck stops, waitresses and runaway convicts. This... See more is Tim Burton’s remake of Vittorio De Sica’s Italian neo-realist classic, The Bicycle Thief. middle class in America.

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