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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.
7 June 1921, Chicago, Illinois, USA
9 December 1954, Anchorage, Alaska, USA
3 February 1950, Dallas, Texas, USA
23 December 1949, Los Angeles, California, USA
2 May 1946, Gary, Indiana, USA
23 August 1940, San Diego, California, USA
20 April 1933
May 7, 1951 in Perth Amboy, New Jersey, USA
6 October 1922, California, USA
17 September 1951, Manhattan, Kansas, USA
2 April 1958, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA
25 January 1951, Wilmington, Delaware, USA
December 15, 1943 in Los Angeles, California, USA
6 January 1930, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
23 April 1957, Decatur, Georgia, USA
1 October 1930, New York City, New York, USA
16 September 1921, Nebraska, USA
11 November 1938, Salinas, California, USA
18 April 1922, Maricopa, Arizona, USA
12 September 1952
24 September 1948, Brantford, Ontario, Canada
24 July 1934, Los Angeles County, California, USA
July 31, 2015
It's a true original -- a comedy maverick that looks and feels like no other movie I know.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.February 09, 2006
Fed by comic tributaries perhaps, but Pee-Wee Herman comes over as a delightful original.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.May 20, 2003
You have been warned.October 04, 2012
The film's inventiveness is on display from the get-go.August 27, 2012
Chiefly successful because of its commitment to an artistic ideal: make something that looks, talks, feels, and moves like a cartoon.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.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]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...