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Overview
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Release Date:
6 August 2008 (USA)
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Tagline:
Put this in your pipe and smoke it. more
Plot:
A stoner and his dealer are forced to go on the run from the police after the pothead witnesses a cop commit a murder. full summary | full synopsis
Awards:
Nominated for Golden Globe.
Another 2 wins
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5 nominations
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Seth Rogen | ... | Dale Denton |
 | James Franco | ... | Saul Silver |
 | Danny McBride | ... | Red |
 | Kevin Corrigan | ... | Budlofsky |
 | Craig Robinson | ... | Matheson |
 | Gary Cole | ... | Ted Jones |
 | Rosie Perez | ... | Carol / Female Cop |
 | Ed Begley Jr. | ... | Robert |
 | Nora Dunn | ... | Shannon |
 | Amber Heard | ... | Angie Anderson |
 | Joe Lo Truglio | ... | Mr. Edwards |
| Arthur Napiontek | ... | Clark |
| Cleo King | ... | Police Liaison Officer |
 | Bill Hader | ... | Private Miller |
 | James Remar | ... | General Bratt |
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MPAA:
Rated R for pervasive language, drug use, sexual references and violence.
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Runtime:
111 min | USA:117 min (unrated version)
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2.35 : 1 more
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Certification:
USA:R (certificate #43851) |
Australia:MA |
UK:15 (cut theatrical version) |
Finland:K-15 |
Canada:18A (Alberta/British Columbia/Manitoba/Nova Scotia/Ontario) |
Hong Kong:IIB |
Ireland:16 (cut theatrical version) |
Singapore:M18 (cut) |
New Zealand:R16 |
UK:18 (uncut DVD version) |
Philippines:R-18 (MTRCB) |
Netherlands:16 |
South Africa:16LV |
Sweden:15 |
Ireland:18 (DVD rating) |
Peru:18 |
Italy:VM14 |
Malaysia:(Banned) |
South Korea:18 |
Argentina:16 |
Norway:15 |
Iceland:14 (video rating) |
Iceland:16 (theatrical rating) |
France:U |
Brazil:18 |
Germany:16 (nf)
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Ted's illegal, subterranean pot-grow house is, ironically enough, the very underground silo from the film's prologue where marijuana was first declared criminal.
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Continuity: In the scene where Dale and Saul are beating up Red in his house, Red's cold sore first appears, then disappears, then appears again.
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References The Blair Witch Project (1999)
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Soundtrack:
Love Is Blue
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Pineapple Express (2008)
*** (out of 4)
A pothead (Seth Rogan) and his dimwitted dealer (James Franco) hit the road after witnessing a cop (Rosie Perez) murder a man. Pretty soon the two are trying to get away from the cop as well as two drug lords in the middle of a war. As far as pot comedies goes this one here is nearly the best the small genre has to offer. I'm sure Cheech and Chong would give this thing two bongs up as it does contain plenty of laughs but I couldn't help but feel it had the same shortcomings as other Judd Apatow movies. That one issue with this film, as well as the others, is that it runs too long for its own good. Clocking in a nearly two-hours I couldn't help but feel that the film could have lost thirty-minutes and not much would have been missed. This is especially true during the ending shoot out, which just keeps going and going. Outside of that issue this film contains some great big laughs with most of them coming in the form of pot jokes and stuff dealing with stoners. Seth Rogan turns in another winning performance as he gains plenty of laughs from his older guy. James Franco is the real jewel in the film as he's dead-on perfect as the drug dealing loser who just sits around his house getting high, selling pot and watching reruns on television. Franco gets the look down just right but his facial gestures and voice tone perfectly capture that pot head many of us have met in our lives. I thought Perez was pretty much wasted in a thankless role that didn't offer her too much to do. Ed Begley, Jr. has a funny bit as Rogan's girlfriend's father. The screenplay really doesn't offer us any jokes we haven't seen countless times before and in many ways there's not an original idea here but that doesn't really matter because the performances are what makes the movie funny.