| Reefer Madness - The Movie Musical (2005)
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| Front Cover |
Actor |
Back Cover |
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| Kristen Bell |
Mary Lane
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| Christian Campbell |
Jimmy Harper
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| Neve Campbell |
Miss Poppy
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| Alan Cumming |
Lecturer/Goat-Man/FDR
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| Ana Gasteyer |
Mae Coleman
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| John Kassir |
Ralph Wiley/Uncle Sam
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| Amy Spanger |
Sally DeBains/Statue of Liberty
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| Robert Torti |
Jesus
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| Steven Weber |
Jack Stone/George Washington
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| Kevin McNulty |
Mayor Harris MacDonald
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| Plot |
| If the idea of making a musical out of Roger Corman's Z-movie quickie The Little Shop of Horrors sounded weird, stick around for the all-singing, all-dancing Reefer Madness. Deliriously based on the notorious 1936 anti-pot social-guidance film, this is an ultra-campy enterprise that lands somewhere between Rocky Horror and a John Waters comedy. Christian Campbell and the spritzy Kristen Bell play the innocent teens lured into a soul-sapping cloud of marijuana dependence by pencil-mustached pusher Steven Weber and his long-suffering dame, Ana Gasteyer. The cast includes femme fatale Amy Spanger and a cameo by Neve Campbell, who dances her way through one sequence. The musical was written and composed by Kevin Murphy and Dan Studney, who re-create some of the kookiest scenes from the original movie ("Faster! Faster!"). Their funniest idea is to frame the sordid saga with a black-and-white story of a government agent showing a public-service film to horrified small-town citizens; he's played by the reliably sinister Alan Cumming, who also pops up in a variety of guises in the film-within-the-film. The only problem with this made-for-Showtime version of the stage show is that camp tends to wear thin, especially at 109 minutes, despite the expert song parodies. Even the original hour-long Reefer Madness got old quick. --Robert Horton |
| Movie Details |
| Genre |
Comedy; Drama; Musical |
| Director |
Andy Fickman |
| Producer |
Rose Lam |
| Writer |
Kevin Murphy; Dan Studney |
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| Studio |
Showtime Entertainment |
| Country |
USA
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| Language |
English |
| Audience Rating |
R |
| Running Time |
108 mins |
| Movie Release Date |
4/16/2005 |
| Color |
Color |
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| Personal Details |
| Format |
DVD |
| Seen It |
Yes |
| Index |
555 |
| Collection Status |
In Collection |
| Purchase Date |
11/1/2005 |
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| Product Details |
| Region |
 Region 1 |
| Screen Ratio |
 Widescreen 1.85:1 Color (Anamorphic) |
| Layers |
Single Side, Dual Layer |
| UPC (Barcode) |
758445115628 |
| Release Date |
11/8/2005 |
| Packaging |
Keep Case |
| Audio Tracks |
 ENGLISH: Dolby Digital 5.1 [CC]
 ENGLISH: Dolby Digital Stereo [CC] |
| Nr of Disks/Tapes |
1 |
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Extra Features
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Cast Commentary
Grass Roots: Behind the Scenes
Cast Biographies
Original Black & White Film From 1936
And More! |
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