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Pee-wee's Big Adventure is a 1985 film directed by Tim Burton and written by Paul Reubens, Phil Hartman, and Michael Varhol. The original music score is composed by Danny Elfman. The film was marketed with the tagline "The Story of a Rebel and his Bike." more...

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Plot

Pee-wee Herman, a strange man who acts like a child, loves his bike more than anything else in the world. Pee-wee's nemesis Francis Buxton, a fellow man-child and neighborhood rich "kid," tries to buy Pee-wee's bike. Pee-wee refuses to even name a price. He takes his bike to town and leaves it elaborately chained to an animated clown statue while he visits a magic shop to pick up some "supplies," then picks up a bike horn from his friend Dottie and resists her attempts to date him. When he finishes shopping, he discovers that his bike has been stolen.

Knowing that Francis was behind the theft, Pee-wee breaks into his mansion and attacks him in his pool-sized bath. After Francis's father breaks them up, Pee-wee admits that he has no proof. He launches a vigorous campaign to find the culprit and recover his bike. Francis, who arranged for the bike theft, becomes spooked by Pee-wee's high-profile campaign and asks the thief to dispose of the bike. Pee-wee compiles mountains of tangential evidence to the crime and presents it to an assembly of his friends, who begin to worry about his sanity. Despondent, Pee-wee visits a phony psychic who lies and tells him that the bike is hidden in the basement of the Alamo.

Pee-wee immediately leaves for San Antonio, Texas and hitches a ride with a man named Mickey. Mickey says that he is a fugitive on the run from the law because he cut off a "do not remove under the penalty of law" mattress tag. Pee-wee and Mickey run into a police blockade, but they avoid arrest when Pee-wee disguises himself as a woman and provides a false beard to Mickey. That night, Pee-wee takes over driving and accidentally drives off the twisty mountain road, nearly killing them both. Mickey leaves Pee-wee by the side of the road, giving a lame excuse remarkably similar to one Pee-wee used to spurn Dottie, although he admits that he likes Pee-wee and does not want him involved in his crime-spree life.

Pee-wee is picked up by a mysterious trucker named Large Marge. The trucker frightens Pee-wee with a vivid description of a terrible truck wreck, finishing the story by briefly distorting her face. On Retrocrush.com's "100 Scariest Movie Scenes", the Large Marge scene came in at number 60. Later, at a truck stop diner, Pee-wee learns that Large Marge was actually a ghost, and that her story was about herself. This scene is based on Red Sovine's song "The Ballad of Big Joe and Phantom 309". At the diner, Pee-wee meets Simone, a friendly waitress with a yearning to see Paris. The two watch the sunrise inside one of Claude Bell's dinosaurs. As Pee-wee convinces her to follow her dream, Simone's huge boyfriend, Andy, catches them together and chases after Pee-wee.

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