Up in Smoke (1978)

Director:

Lou Adler

Writers:

Tommy Chong (writer)
Cheech Marin (writer)

Release Date:

15 September 1978 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Music

Tagline:

It will make you feel VERY funny!

Plot:

Two stoners unknowingly smuggle a van - made entirely of marijuana - from Mexico to L.A., with incompetent Sgt. Stedenko on their trail.

Plot Keywords:

Hitchhiking | Tutu | Vietnam Veteran | Passenger | Stoned

Cast

Cheech Marin	...	Pedro De Pacas
Tommy Chong	...	Anthony 'Man' Stoner
Strother Martin	...	Arnold Stoner
Edie Adams	...	Mrs. Tempest Stoner
Harold Fong	...	Chauffeur
Richard Novo	...	Richard
Jane Moder	...	Jail Bait
Pam Bille	...	Jail Bait
Arthur Roberts	...	Arresting Officer
Marian Beeler	...	Judge Gladys Dykes
Donald Hotton	...	Bailiff
John Ian Jacobs	...	Prosecuting Attorney
Christopher Joy	...	Curtis
Ray Vitte	...	James (Bass Player)
Michael Caldwell	...	Duane (Guitar)

Also Known As:

Cheech and Chong's Up in Smoke
Cheech and Chong: Up in Smoke

Runtime:

86 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English | Spanish

Color:

Color (Metrocolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

New Zealand:R16 | Australia:MA (TV rating) | Finland:K-18 (2001) | Finland:(Banned) (1978) | Canada:13+ (Quebec) (re-rating) | Australia:M (cable rating) | Australia:R (original rating) | Canada:18+ (Quebec) | Canada:18A | France:-16 | Ireland:18 | Netherlands:16 | Norway:18 | Spain:18 | UK:18 | USA:R | West Germany:18

Filming Locations:

Pacific Coast Highway, Malibu, California, USA

Company:

Paramount Pictures

Trivia:

This film was banned by the South African Publications Control Board as it "might encourage the usage of marijuana by the impressionable youth of South Africa".

Goofs:

Continuity: When Chong is playing the drums at the Roxy after being "revived", his drum strokes clearly don't go with the music.

Quotes:

Man Stoner: No, hey man, if we're gonna wear uniforms man, you know let’s have everybody wear something different.
Pedro: Yea, that's it. Yea, we want something wear everybody wears something different man, but the same, you know?

Movie Connections:

Features A Hick a Slick and a Chick (1948)

Soundtrack:

You're Not Blank

Groooovy dope comedy

The first movie of six which we follow the two dope heads "Pedro De Pacas" (Cheech Marin) and Anthony 'Man' Stoner (Tommy Chong) on their adventures, I think this is the funniest of the "Cheech & Chong" series.

In this movie they have to drive a van made of marijuana over the Mexican border to the United States to get back in time to battle of the band contest, and they don't know that the van completely made of Marijuana.

Similar Dope-movies must be "Half Baked" and "How High" that all must have been inspired from this movie even though i don't like those new dope movies, I would also recommend rest of the "Cheech & Chong" movies.