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Movie Info
Genre(s): Documentary
Written by:
Josh Gilbert
Steven Hager
Directed by: Josh Gilbert
Release Date:
Theatrical: June 14, 2006
Running Time: 75 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
RATING: Not Rated
Starring Lou Adler, Paris Chong, Shelby Chong, Tommy Chong, Peter Coyote, Jay Leno, Bill Maher, Cheech Marin, Eric Schlosser, and George Thorogood
Filmmaker Josh Gilbert follows the tragic and absurd journey of legendary counter-culture comedian Tommy Chong who in 2003 was indicted in an internet drug paraphernalia sting and wound up serving nine months in federal prison. (ThinkFilm)
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What The Critics Said
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Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
Chong does his time (nine months) and has the last laugh, emerging as a born-again activist-survivor of the culture wars.
Read Full Review >Salon.com Andrew O'Hehir
This is a small film, but it moved me and made me angry. Both reactions, in this context, are worthwhile.
Read Full Review >The New York Times Manohla Dargis
Tells the depressing, often ridiculous and generally enraging story of how and why Mr. Chong, an extremely laid-back and genial camera presence, ended up doing time in the minimum-security Taft Correctional Institution in Taft, Calif.
Read Full Review >New York Post Lou Lumenick
How the feds inadvertently resurrected the performing career of stoner comic Tommy Chong by busting him is the ironic subtext of Josh Gilbert's one-sided documentary a/k/a Tommy Chong.
Read Full Review >Premiere Ethan Alter
Gilbert films Chong as if he's a political prisoner like Nelson Mandela, when he's really just an older comic going to jail over a bad business decision.
Read Full Review >Boston Globe Wesley Morris
This isn't a great piece of nonfiction filmmaking, but it has its moments.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman
Gilbert blatantly takes Chong's side, so your level of empathy will rise or fall depending on how strongly you connect with his subject's hazy, if enthusiastic, dedication to "the pursuit of righteous happiness."
Read Full Review >Film Threat K.J. Doughton
Leave the Visine and wrapping papers at home for A/K/A Tommy Chong, a surprisingly clear-eyed, sober account of what it’s liked to be embraced by a culture, while loathed by the Powers That Be.
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club) Nathan Rabin
Perhaps it was inevitable that a movie about the ultimate stoner would be undone by fuzzy execution and lack of ambition.
Read Full Review >The Hollywood Reporter John DeFore
First-time filmmaker Josh Gilbert, whose skills behind the camera are rudimentary, might be a bit too close to his subject to do disinterested viewers justice; he clearly is a fan and is making no effort to show both sides of the story he reports.
Read Full Review >Variety Robert Koehler
While the picture's reporting on government repression of alternative cultural ideas and lifestyles is noteworthy more than anything, it's a blatant promo for Chong's career.
Read Full Review >Village Voice Rob Nelson
Following Chong to the clink by way of a few well-timed stand-up gigs, this genial doc sprinkles Reagan and Nixon soundbites over its vintage stash of C&C clips for a suitably fuzzy squint at America from '69 to the buzzkill present.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 10.0 (out of 10) based on 2 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Martin S. gave it a10:
Film of the year. FIlm of the year. Tommy Chong, he's my homeboy.
