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  • Summary: 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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  1. Positive: 7 out of 12
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 12
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  1. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Owen Gleiberman
    75
    Chong does his time (nine months) and has the last laugh, emerging as a born-again activist-survivor of the culture wars.
  2. Salon.com
    Reviewed by: Andrew O'Hehir
    70
    This is a small film, but it moved me and made me angry. Both reactions, in this context, are worthwhile.
  3. Film Threat
    Reviewed by: K.J. Doughton
    60
    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.

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  1. MartinS.
    10
    Film of the year. FIlm of the year. Tommy Chong, he's my homeboy.
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