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Teaser Poster and Synopsis


Here's some cool stuff TeeJay dug up...

The poster: http://www.contentfilm.com/common/file.php/pg/localhost74/contentfilm. com/binaries/1354/image

Kid Cannabis

Based on an outrageous true story, KID CANNABIS blends 'Superbad' and 'Blow' to create a riotous teen comedy about a wise-cracking high-school drop-out and his transformation into a multi-million dollar marijuana mogul.

Meet Nate Norman (CHRIS MARQUETTE) – your typical American teenage slob. Spending his days in the excitement-free zone of suburban Idaho, playing video games, eating pizza and getting high with his best friend Topher, it's all too clear that Nate is going nowhere fast. But after suffering yet another humiliation at the hands of the local hard-nut drug-dealer Brendan Butler (AARON YOO), Nate realises that he's had enough of being a bottom-feeder. During a habitual pot-smoking session with Topher, he comes up with 'The Idea'…

Nate tells it like this - the one redeeming feature of his trash-can of a home town is that it's only 100 miles from the finest marijuana on the planet, 'B.C. Bud' – one of Canada's most lucrative exports. What's more, the Canadian border is over 5,000 miles across, with no fence, and is almost entirely un-patrolled. There's a $7-billion-a-year industry just waiting to be taken advantage of. Buy low, sell high, and cut out the middleman – happy days. And it's low risk – as Nate points out, only the dumb people get caught…

After gaining some start-up capital by selling a sunken boat from a nearby lake, Nate and Topher hit the ground running. Their first border run turns out to be all too easy; a combination of Nate's wise-cracking charm, Topher's inventive, finely-honed smuggling techniques and an absurdly friendly Canadian policeman means getting drugs over the border is a breeze. Things are looking sweet. But when Nate uses his sharp-talking charm to hook up with a shady multi-millionaire businessman, things go stratospheric overnight. Suddenly Nate is making a million dollars a month, and employing his friends and family as the godfather of a hugely successful drugs cartel. Nate's lifestyle goes from 'Playstation' to 'Playboy Mansion' – money, cars, and naked women, it's all good – and Nate is living the dream.

But when Brendan Butler's business begins to feel the pinch of Nate's new found success, the psychotic Korean drug-dealer lets his 'Scarface' fixation go to his head, and out come the guns. It's all about to kick off, and very soon, things are going to get chronic…

A wickedly funny drug-running comedy that's much more 'Pineapple Express' than 'Midnight Express', KID CANNABIS twists the coolness of 'Risky Business' for the slacker generation. Boasting razor-sharp dialogue and edge-of-your-seat thrills, this is a comedy classic in the making from the director of the smash-hit 'Blue Crush'.
Source: http://www.contentfilm.com/index.php/film_tv/contentfilm_international /new_films/694.html
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Well that sucks, I thought the film was gonna go the Alpha Dog route and be at least kinda serious seeing as the article about Nate in Rolling Stone didnt exactly paint the picture of fun and games....

smh if this *beep* turns into something lampooning the actual real life event.

and smh @ the tag line at the end "things are about to get CHRONIC"

i just lost some interest in this *beep*

on a side note: Blue Crush was a smash hit?

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yeah seriously, where did Blue Crush come from?

Anyway, i'm SOOO excited for this movie! Reading the actual news article about this, I didn't think they would make it as fun as it seems their making it. I loved Alpha Dog, but i'm glad Kid Cannabis isn't going to be as serious. Chris Marquette is great for the role.

I can't wait!!^&*


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i FULL AGREE WITH moseschadwick %100

time is never wasted, when your wasted all the time

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We asked Chris Marquette two weeks ago about whether the movie is leaning more towards comedy or more towards drama, and he said that it's not supposed to be a comedy. There will be comedic parts in it, but they develop more or less naturally from funny moments instead of Stockwell writing the movie as a comedy.

I don't know if it's gonna be as serious as Alpha Dog, and somehow I can't see it being that deeply disturbing. I just hope it has a bit of everything: drama, comedy and a certain amount of thrill. And most of all, an entertaining story that makes the movie fun and worth watching--possibly more than once.

-TeeJay

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In the article on www.natenorman.com at the end Scuzz says something along the lines of im not gonna lie and say i regret anything about what we did because the people who say that are just doing it to please other people i dont care it was the best time of my life.
Soo clearly these guys had fun when they were doing this if the movie is comedic and dramatic it sounds like it'll be depicting the life they lead perfectly.Face it these guys were young and carefree they were having the time of their lives.

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P.S. the link for the poster doesnt work

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Damn, that sucks about the link to the poster. You can still see it here:

http://www.chris-marquette.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=32699#p32699
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Looks alright.

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