Fueled by a surging sex drive, Wild Turkey, and also superhuman dosages of medicines, Thompson was a true "cost-free lance," goring sacred cows with impunity, hilarity, and also a steel-eyed sentence for writing misdoings. Concentrating on the good doctor's heyday, 1965 to 1975, the movie includes clips of never-before-seen (nor listened to) house films, audiotapes, as well as passages from unpublished manuscripts.