Synopsis
An Ivy League professor returns home, where his pot-growing twin brother has concocted a plan to take down a local drug lord.
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Cast
- Edward NortonBill Kincaid / Brady Kincaid
- Susan SarandonDaisy Kincaid
- Richard DreyfussPug Rothbaum
- Keri RussellJanet
- Melanie LynskeyColleen
- Lucy DeVitoAnne Greenstein
- Kent Jude BernardPhilosophy Student
- Amelia CampbellMaggie Harmon
- Tim Blake NelsonBolger
- Randal ReederShaver
Recommendations
- 100
Chicago Sun-Times
Some kind of sweet, wacky masterpiece. - 83
Entertainment Weekly
The movie bubbles with intellectual curiosity and narrative ambition. - 70
Boxoffice Magazine
Writer/director Tim Blake Nelson manages a finely tuned balance that is rare in cinema. Moving from the far reaches of comedy to the nether regions of drama, he never skips a beat or sets the pitch too high. - 70
New York Magazine (Vulture)
Part goofy drug comedy, part shocking bloodbath. It’s a riot of tones and genres, but unlike that other recent hybrid, "Pineapple Express," the parts add up to something larger. - 50
The New Yorker
The movie is a showcase for digital technology and for Norton’s virtuosity, but I wish it weren’t such a weightless shambles. - 50
Variety
A mixed bag of often mismatched ideas. - 50
Village Voice
His (Nelson) timing is off and his bullshit detector nonexistent. I don't much care for the Coens, but the sad truth is that their cynical nihilism is a lot less spurious than Nelson's earnest sentimentality. - 50
Observer
Don’t be misled by the title Leaves of Grass. Do not expect literacy, either. This stoner comedy has nothing whatsoever to do with Walt Whitman or poetry of any kind.
