Obscure Movie Characters We Like: Scarface in Half Baked. Nat B 10 years ago. Prev Article Next Article. Half Baked is clearly very “high” in the stratosphere of great stoner movies. In my eyes it’s easily in the top ten all time. One of the reasons it’s so good isn’t simply because of an awesome young Dave Chappelle. Half Baked Cannabis comedy doesn't get more juvenile than this pro-pot goof about three stoners who come to the rescue of a fourth buddy when he's arrested for feeding a lethal dose of junk food to a diabetic police horse.
| Half Baked | |
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| Directed by | Tamra Davis |
| Produced by | Robert Simonds |
| Written by | |
| Starring |
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| Music by | Alf Clausen |
| Cinematography | Steven Bernstein |
| Edited by | Don Zimmerman |
Robert Simonds Productions | |
| Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
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| 82 minutes | |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $8 million |
| Box office | $17.5 million[1] |
Half Baked is a 1998 American stoner comedy film starring Dave Chappelle, Jim Breuer, Harland Williams and Guillermo Díaz. The film was directed by Tamra Davis, co-written by Chappelle and Neal Brennan and produced by Robert Simonds.
Though Half Baked was a box office failure and received generally negative reviews, it has since regained footing as a cult film.[2]
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Plot[edit]
Four lifelong stoners and friends (Kenny, Thurgood, Scarface, and Brian) live together in New York City. Thurgood, a janitor at a medical laboratory, brings home some unusually potent marijuana given to him by an unscrupulous scientist at the lab, and the four smoke it. When Kenny, a gentle kindergarten teacher, is out on a munchie run, he is arrested for accidentally killing a diabetic police horse by feeding it junk food.
His friends are forced to find $1,000,000 to bail him out before the other prisoners take advantage of his gentle nature.
Scarface gets the idea to have Thurgood steal medical marijuana from his work so that the three of them can sell it to raise money to free Kenny. While visiting Kenny in prison, Thurgood meets Mary Jane and pursues a romantic relationship, which is strained by his having to conceal his marijuana smoking and dealing from her, as she is adamantly anti drug.
When the success of the friends' marijuana business grows enough to raise the ire of local drug lord Samson Simpson, Samson extorts the friends for $20,000 a week. Mary Jane dumps Thurgood when she finds out Thurgood is dealing drugs. The friends plan a robbery of the medical laboratory to increase their earnings enough to both fend off Samson and free Kenny, but are arrested when they try to execute the plan.
Thurgood strikes a deal with the police to wear a listening device to a meeting with Samson in exchange for freeing Kenny and dropping the charges against him and his friends. The friends meet with Samson and the plan works. Kenny and his friends are freed and Thurgood meets with Mary Jane to say that he is giving up marijuana and wants to get back together. The film ends with the two reuniting.
Cast[edit]
- Dave Chappelle as Thurgood Jenkins/Sir Smoke-a-Lot
- Guillermo Díaz as Scarface
- Jim Breuer as Brian
- Harland Williams as Kenny Davis
- Rachel True as Mary Jane Potman
- Clarence Williams III as Samson Simpson
- Laura Silverman as Jan
- Tommy Chong as Squirrel Master
- Steven Wright as The Guy on the Couch (uncredited)
- Tracy Morgan as V. J.
- Snoop Doggy Dogg as Scavenger smoker
- Jon Stewart as Enhancement smoker
- Stephen Baldwin as MacGyver Smoker
- Willie Nelson as Historian smoker
- Bob Saget as Cocaine addict (uncredited)
Release[edit]
Box office[edit]
Half Baked Download e-mu pk 6 proteus keys manual. hit theaters in the United States on January 16, 1998, earning $7,722,540 in its opening weekend, ranking at No. 6, and, by the end of its run, grossed $17,460,020.[1] With the estimated budget being $8 million, the film can be considered a box office failure.[3]
Critical reception[edit]
While Half Baked received generally negative critic reviews -- currently holding a 29% 'Rotten' rating by critics based on 24 critic reviews, it also held generally positive user reviews (81% with 194,202 user reviews)[4] On Metacritic, the film received a score of 16 out of 100 from critics, indicating 'overwhelming dislike'. In a similar vein to Rotten Tomatoes, it received a more favorable rating from users at 7.8 based on 80 users reviews. [5]
Despite its negative reception, it has had several re-releases on DVD and to this day it is considered a cult classic [6].
References[edit]
- ^ ab'Half Baked at Box Office Mojo'. Retrieved May 20, 2012.
- ^Petty, Amber (May 18, 2016). '10 Things You Might Not Know About Half Baked'. IFC. Retrieved 11 September 2019.
- ^'Half Baked'. Internet Movie Database. Amazon.com. Retrieved 2012-12-05.
- ^'Half Baked'. Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 14 September 2019.
- ^Half Baked at Metacritic
- ^Screen Crushhttps://screencrush.com/half-baked-then-and-now-done/. Retrieved 14 September 2019.Missing or empty
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