Stoner madness

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Movie
German title Stoner madness
Original title Reefer Madness
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2005
length 112 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Andy Fickman
script Kevin Murphy ,
Dan Studney
production Rose Lam
music David Manning ,
Nathan Wang
camera Jan Kiesser
cut Jeff Freeman
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Kifferwahn (Original title: Reefer Madness ) is an American television film directed by Andy Fickman from 2005 . Before broadcasting on April 16, 2005 on the pay-TV channel Showtime , it premiered in January 2005 at the Sundance Film Festival . In Germany, the film was also shown in cinemas, the releases on DVD followed on November 8, 2005 in the USA and on August 25, 2006 in Germany.

The film is based on the musical Reefer Madness , which premiered in Los Angeles in 1998 and is based on the exploitation film Reefer Madness from 1936.

action

In a small town in the 1930s , a high school scientist educates citizens about the dangers and pitfalls of marijuana . To this end, he tells the story of the young lovers Jimmy Harper and Mary Lane.

On the black side of town, the sadistic drug dealer Jack Stone operates with his companions Sally DeBanis, a prostitute, college student Ralph Wiley, and his drug addict lover Mae. When Jack meets Jimmy while visiting Miss Poppy's soda bar, he gives him cannabis , and Jimmy instantly mutates into a crazy addict and forgets his lover Mary.

One night, Jimmy and Ralph break into the church to steal money from the collection plate for drugs . As a result, Jesus descends from the cross and admonishes Jimmy to give up his habit, but he cannot, as he is already too obsessed with drugs. When Jimmy returns to build the troop, he learns that Sally has sold her child on the black market for lack of drug money. Another night the two rush home drunk in their car, running over an old man. Sally flees, and Jimmy panic drives home to Mary, where he confesses his continued love to her and asks her to leave him, even though she wants to go with him. Jimmy then wants to move away from the house to start somewhere again, but meets Jack there, who sneakily offers him a brownie filled with marijuana , since he senses the danger that his machinations could be exposed if Jimmy is caught by the police. Mary immediately disappears from Jimmy's mind.

This time when Jimmy wants to return to the beating of the drug dealer gang, Mary secretly follows him to save him. But she is intercepted by Ralph, who flatters her and lets her come into contact with marijuana. Then Mary begins to transform into a dominatrix and rape Ralph. When Jimmy sees this, he starts fighting with Ralph. Jack comes in and tries to stop the fight, but soon a shot from his gun goes off and hits Mary in the heart. She dies in Jimmy's arms, and when the police arrive, her lover is taken off to death row because Jack accuses Jimmy of the perpetrator. Ralph also goes mad and sees Mary, Jimmy and the other marijuana victims come on. In a hunger attack he kills Sally and begins to eat her. Jack shoots a few times at Ralph, who, however, strengthened by his stoner craze, manages to escape into the backyard. When Jack tries to see if he is still there, he sees Ralph fall from a tree and get impaled on a scarecrow . Mae also gets delusional, and to put an end to the hustle and bustle, she kills Jack with a garden hoe.

Mae later reads in the newspaper that the president is going to visit a sick child in town, and she decides to go to him for a presidential pardon. She succeeds, and they can barely save Jimmy from the electric chair . Finally, they drive to the gang hut to burn the matter down. Mary appears with a halo and promises Jimmy to wait for him in heaven.

Reviews

“A parodic broadside against the worldview of the conservative right in America today, which comes up with lively music and witty dialogues, but does nothing more than confirm the prejudices of a liberal audience. To make matters worse, the unwanted self-parody of the original is hard to beat. "

- Lexicon of international film

"Lustfully exaggerated genre parody in an opulent retro look, whose intoxicating musical interludes are a little too keen to vie for cult status."

- Cinema

“How the scourge of marijuana turns people into monsters and nips a promising young love in the bud. The latest addiction advice from a competent B-movie fun manufacturer. "

- Focus: film

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for stoner madness . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , February 2006 (PDF; test number: 105 249 K).
  2. ↑ Reefer Madness. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed September 29, 2016 .   (with photo gallery)Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used