Pee-wee’s Big Adventure

Eccentric man-child Pee-Wee Herman embarks on the big adventure of his life across the US mainland, as he sets out to find his beloved bike, when it is stolen in broad daylight.

• Director: * Tim Burton
• Genre:Adventure / Comedy / Family
• Runtime:91 minutes

Cast

Paul Reubens : Pee-wee Herman (as Pee-wee Herman)
Elizabeth Daily : Dottie
Mark Holton : Francis Buxton
Diane Salinger : Simone
Judd Omen : Mickey

Pee-wee Herman is a child-like adult who lives in a house filled with toys and pop culture artifacts, and he loves his bike more than anything else in the world. Francis Buxton, a spoiled, immature adult neighbor, is celebrating his birthday and wishes for Pee-wee’s bike as his present, but Pee-wee refuses to sell it.

Pee-wee rides his bike to the local shopping district, where he visits a bike shop and a magic store. At the bike shop, he meets Dottie, another child-like adult who works as a bike mechanic, who asks Pee-wee out on a date. Pee-wee rebuffs her advances, telling her that she doesn’t want to get mixed up with a guy like him, because he is a loner and a rebel. When he returns from shopping, he discovers that his bike has been stolen. Distraught, Pee-wee tries to get the police and his friends to help him recover his most prized possession. Suspicious that Francis stole the bike (because he had asked to buy it earlier that day), Pee-wee confronts him but comes up empty handed.

No one else thinks Pee-wee’s missing bike is an emergency, so he is left to search for the bike on his own. After visiting a psychic who fabricates a story that his bike is in the basement of the Alamo, Pee-wee sets off on a cross-country journey to find his bike. Meanwhile, the viewing audience is told that Francis did actually steal the bike, but is now getting rid of it because he fears he will get caught.

Pee-wee starts his journey to the Alamo by hitchhiking, and he is eventually picked up by a man named Mickey. Mickey turns out to be a fugitive from the law for cutting off a “Do Not Remove Under Penalty of Law” label on a mattress. The two part ways when Mickey leaves Pee-wee on the side of the road in the middle of the night after Pee-wee accidentally drives over a cliff. Read more

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