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  • 2006
  • Not Rated
  • Blue Chief Entertainment
  • 1 h 20 m
  • 2006
  • Not Rated
  • Blue Chief Entertainment
  • 1 h 20 m

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)

Directed By: Josh Gilbert

Written By: Steven Hager, Josh Gilbert

  • 2006
  • Not Rated
  • Blue Chief Entertainment
  • 1 h 20 m
  • 2006
  • Not Rated
  • Blue Chief Entertainment
  • 1 h 20 m

A/k/a Tommy Chong

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 12 Critic Reviews
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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)

Directed By: Josh Gilbert

Written By: Steven Hager, Josh Gilbert

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 12 Critic Reviews
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58% Positive
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42% Mixed
5 Reviews
0% Negative
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Mixed or Average Based on 12 Critic Reviews
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58% Positive
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42% Mixed
5 Reviews
0% Negative
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75
Chong does his time (nine months) and has the last laugh, emerging as a born-again activist-survivor of the culture wars.
By Owen Gleiberman FULL REVIEW
70
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.
By Manohla Dargis FULL REVIEW
63
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."
By Elizabeth Weitzman FULL REVIEW
63
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.
By Lou Lumenick FULL REVIEW
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.
By K.J. Doughton FULL REVIEW
50
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.
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50
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.
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Production Company Blue Chief Entertainment, Surreel
Release Date Jun 14, 2006
Duration 1 h 20 m
Rating Not Rated
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Website http://www.akatommychong.com/
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Awards

San Francisco Indiefest
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
US Comedy Arts Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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