Homegrown

Three clumsy marijuana growers in north California take overthe plantation when their boss is brutally murdered right in front of their eyes. The ill-matched trio are bad Iy prepared for what is com i ng when they try to sell the crop worth millions to cunning drugdealers.
Already in 1981 the script for Homegrown was written, but the project never took off back then. The director Stephen Gyllenhaal himself feels that the film is better suited in time now. The legalisation of marijuana has been on the agenda in the USA over the last year since the states of Arizona and California have legalised it for medical use. Homegrown on the other hand does not take a stand either way. The film deals more with morality and greed than whether it is everyones human right to smoke a joint or not. This comedy is about what happens when three people who start out as a team eventually start misstrusting eachother. The team consists of the horticulturist Carter who lovingly looks after the marijuana plants. He is played by Hank Azaria who amongst many other things does the voice of Aputhe energetic, indian shop owner in the TV-series The Simpsons, lately seen in
The Birdcage, Grosse Pointe Blank, and
Great Expectations. The role of a confused and paranoid marijuana grower suits him well. On top of that he has one of the greatest mullets of modern times.
Jack (Billy Bob Thornton, the man behind Sling Blade) and the young, na'lve Harlan (Ryan Philippe) are Carters companions as they hunt for the big money.
There is loads of famous faces in this low-budget production by Stephen Gyllenhaal. Jamie Lee Curtis can be seen as a hippie mother and leader of the
small town which is liberal towards drugs. The soft rocker Jon Bon Jovi does a believable achievement in the role of family father and cunning marijuana dealer. Ted Danson, probably most known as the bartender from the TV-series Cheers, does a silly but brutal maffia boss whose scariest torture tool is a small, fluffy, white poodle.
JULIA NILSSON

Premiärstatus
Skandinavisk premiär: Medverkande
Kelly Lynch, Billy Bob Thornton, Hank Azaria: Producent
Jason Clark: Manus
Nicholas Kazan: Foto
Greg Gardiner: Talat språk
English