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Big Top Pee-Wee (1986)
Director: Randal Kleiser
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
This second feature from minor-comedian-cum-notorious-cult-figure Paul Reubens (alias Pee-Wee Herman) isn't in the same class as Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, but still provides plenty of prize pickings for kids, kooks and academics. Pee-Wee is down on the farm with his talking pig Vincent when a circus pitches tent in the adjacent field. Soon our hero is convinced there's sawdust in his veins. So are we, because comedians don't come much stranger than Pee-Wee. You'd think twice about taking candy from this baby, but his deadpan perversity is both funny peculiar and funny ha-ha.Author: TCh
Cast & crew
Director: Randal Kleiser
Producer: Paul Reubens Paul Reubenfeld, Debra Hill
Cast: Paul Reubens, Penelope Ann Miller, Kris Kristofferson, Valeria Golino, Susan Tyrrell, Albert Henderson, Kevin Peter Hall, Kenneth Tobey full cast
Genre(s): Comedy
Duration: 90 mins
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