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A/k/a Tommy Chong
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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)
- Director: Josh Gilbert
- Genre(s): Documentary
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75Chong does his time (nine months) and has the last laugh, emerging as a born-again activist-survivor of the culture wars.
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70This is a small film, but it moved me and made me angry. Both reactions, in this context, are worthwhile.
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70Tells 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.
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60Leave 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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MartinS.10Film of the year. FIlm of the year. Tommy Chong, he's my homeboy.
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