Pee-wee's Big Adventure is a 1985 adventure comedy film directed by Tim Burton in his full-length debut and starring Paul Reubens as Pee-wee Herman. Reubens also co-wrote the script with Phil Hartman and Michael Varhol. Supporting roles are played by Elizabeth Daily, Mark Holton and Diane Salinger. Pee-wee's Big Adventure tells the story of Pee-wee Herman embarking on nation-wide adventure in search of his stolen bicycle.
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Pee-wee's Big Adventure is a 1985 adventure comedy film directed by Tim Burton in his full-length debut and starring Paul Reubens as Pee-wee Herman. Reubens also co-wrote the script with Phil Hartman and Michael Varhol. Supporting roles are played by Elizabeth Daily, Mark Holton and Diane Salinger. Pee-wee's Big Adventure tells the story of Pee-wee Herman embarking on nation-wide adventure in search of his stolen bicycle.
Pee-wee Herman loves his bike more than anything else in the world and refuses to sell it to spoiled neighbor Francis Buxton. The bike is stolen, resulting in Pee-wee visiting a psychic who lies and tells him that the bike is hidden in the basement of the Alamo Mission in San Antonio, Texas. Along the way, he meets Simone, a waitress with a yearning to see Paris. Her jealous boyfriend Andy thinks Pee-wee and Simone are romantically linked, and causes Pee-wee to flee in a boxcar of a moving train. Making it to San Antonio, he finds that the Alamo has no basement....
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