Growing Op

20082008
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1h 40m

IMDb RATING

6.1/10

1.5K

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Comedy Drama

In an average American neighborhood, a family of four breaks all conformity making it difficult for their 18 year old son to fit in to society.In an average American neighborhood, a family of four breaks all conformity making it difficult for their 18 year old son to fit in to society.In an average American neighborhood, a family of four breaks all conformity making it difficult for their 18 year old son to fit in to society.

IMDb RATING

6.1/10

1.5K

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Awards
- 2 wins & 1 nomination

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Steven Yaffee, Rachel Blanchard / Growing Op

Katie Boland, Steven Yaffee / Growing Op

Katie Boland, Rosanna Arquette, Wallace Langham, Steven Yaffee / Growing Op

Rosanna Arquette, Steven Yaffee, Rachel Blanchard, Katie Boland / Growing Op

Rachel Blanchard, Steven Yaffee / Growing Op

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Trivia
Most of the Marijuana Plants inside the house are fake. They came in large boxes, all completely disassembled. The crew did not have enough time to put them all together, so one of the crew members took the pieces to a retirement home where the seniors happily spent the time putting together the plants.

Goofs
While Quinn is doing the examination the clock on the wall does not change from 2.25 p.m. during the whole time.

Quotes
Bryce Dawson: Well, you look like big girls! Can't you read my sign?
[Referring to the one on the front door]
Sprite #1: 'Welcome.'
Bryce Dawson: Well, thanks! But we're not interested.
Sprite #1: But everyone else on the street is buying them! It's for a good cause.
Bryce Dawson: Oh, so you're selling conformity, along with toxic sugar treats. Well, did you know that Wood Sprites can trace back their insidious origins back to Lord Baden Powell, who was not only a neo-Fascist, but was also an infamous advocate of apartheid?
Sprite #1: [Befuddled] What?
Bryce Dawson: [Waving cynically at the mother] Yeah, ask your mom. And tell her you just have to peddle your little boxes of bigotry... elsewhere. Nighty night!
Sprite #1: [Turns away crying] Mom, what's apartheid?

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Featured review

6/10

ill-fitting shock twist

Quinn (Steven Yaffee) is an awkward teen with no friends. It doesn't help that his parents (Wallace Langham, Rosanna Arquette) are hippies secretly growing illegal weed at home and they don't allow him to attend school. Hope (Katie Boland) is his punk drug-selling little sister. He's taken with beautiful new girl Crystal Connor (Rachel Blanchard) moving in across the street. Suddenly, he has a real need to go to class. His love for Crystal makes him the prime bullying target for class president hunk Philip and his popular group.

That was some twist. I am not a fan. It turns a fun little teen comedy into a heavy drama. I do like most of the movie. The sharp turn totally threw me. It's definitely a surprise although I assumed the ending to be her accidentally letting out the secret and the family has to go on the run. The point is to keep it light and prison time is not light. I still like the movie and the characters.

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