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  • 2017
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  • 2017
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  • 1 h 41 m

Summary A real-life Breaking Bad for the psychedelic set, The Sunshine Makers reveals the fascinating, untold story of Nicholas Sand and Tim Scully, the unlikely duo at the heart of 1960s American drug counter-culture. United in a utopian mission to save the planet through the consciousness-raising power of LSD, these underground chemists manufa...

Directed By: Cosmo Feilding-Mellen

Written By: Connie Littlefield, Cosmo Feilding-Mellen

  • 2017
  • FilmRise
  • 1 h 41 m
  • 2017
  • FilmRise
  • 1 h 41 m

The Sunshine Makers

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 6 Critic Reviews
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Summary A real-life Breaking Bad for the psychedelic set, The Sunshine Makers reveals the fascinating, untold story of Nicholas Sand and Tim Scully, the unlikely duo at the heart of 1960s American drug counter-culture. United in a utopian mission to save the planet through the consciousness-raising power of LSD, these underground chemists manufa...

Directed By: Cosmo Feilding-Mellen

Written By: Connie Littlefield, Cosmo Feilding-Mellen

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 6 Critic Reviews
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Generally Favorable Based on 6 Critic Reviews
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17% Mixed
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75
Jan 26, 2017
The Sunshine Makers is a true San Francisco story.
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75
Jan 6, 2017
A light and lively look at a drug culture and trade that didn’t avoid all of the darkness that followed.
By Roger Moore FULL REVIEW
70
Jan 26, 2017
This documentary meanders a bit as it goes between time periods, but it’s never less than entertaining and illuminating.
By Kimber Myers FULL REVIEW
70
Jan 19, 2017
The Sunshine Makers is an entertaining look at the days in which the phrase "Turn on, tune in, drop out" were words to live by.
By Frank Scheck FULL REVIEW
70
Jan 19, 2017
Whether together or apart, Mr. Sand and Mr. Scully seemed to be operating on a similar wavelength, and the movie gets a lot of mileage from their sometimes excellent, at times hair-raising, occasionally puckishly funny and altogether wild adventures.
By Manohla Dargis FULL REVIEW
60
Jan 19, 2017
For a documentary about two men who were big-time drug dealers back in the day, The Sunshine Makers is a quaint, damn-near-adorable bit of nostalgia.
By Craig D. Lindsey FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Passion Pictures, Persephone Pictures
Release Date Jan 20, 2017
Duration 1 h 41 m
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Tagline The LSD movement that defined the radical Sixties and the lads that led the way in manufacturing the wonder trip.
Website http://films.passion-pictures.com/current
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