Synopsis
Documentary about Tommy Chong's federal prosecution under the Bush administration for selling bongs over the Internet.
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Cast
- Tommy ChongHimself
- Cheech MarinHimself
- Jay LenoHimself
- Bill MaherHimself
- Lou AdlerHimself
- Peter CoyoteHimself
Recommendations
- 75
Entertainment Weekly
Chong does his time (nine months) and has the last laugh, emerging as a born-again activist-survivor of the culture wars. - 70
The New York Times
Tells the depressing, often ridiculous and generally enraging story of how and why Mr. Chong, an extremely laid-back and genial camera presence, ended up doing time in the minimum-security Taft Correctional Institution in Taft, Calif. - 63
New York Post
How the feds inadvertently resurrected the performing career of stoner comic Tommy Chong by busting him is the ironic subtext of Josh Gilbert's one-sided documentary a/k/a Tommy Chong. - 63
Premiere
Gilbert films Chong as if he's a political prisoner like Nelson Mandela, when he's really just an older comic going to jail over a bad business decision. - 63
New York Daily News
Gilbert blatantly takes Chong's side, so your level of empathy will rise or fall depending on how strongly you connect with his subject's hazy, if enthusiastic, dedication to "the pursuit of righteous happiness." - 60
Film Threat
Leave the Visine and wrapping papers at home for A/K/A Tommy Chong, a surprisingly clear-eyed, sober account of what it’s liked to be embraced by a culture, while loathed by the Powers That Be. - 58
The A.V. Club
Perhaps it was inevitable that a movie about the ultimate stoner would be undone by fuzzy execution and lack of ambition. - 50
The Hollywood Reporter
First-time filmmaker Josh Gilbert, whose skills behind the camera are rudimentary, might be a bit too close to his subject to do disinterested viewers justice; he clearly is a fan and is making no effort to show both sides of the story he reports.
