A/k/a Tommy Chong (2006)


Documentary about Tommy Chong's federal prosecution under the Bush administration for selling bongs over the Internet.

A/k/a Tommy Chong (2006)

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Released Year: 2006
Runtime: 84 minutes
Genre: Documentary
Directors: Josh Gilbert
Writers: Josh Gilbert

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Documentary about Tommy Chong's federal prosecution under the Bush administration for selling bongs over the Internet.

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75
Entertainment Weekly - Owen Gleiberman
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 - Manohla Dargis
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 - Lou Lumenick
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 - Unnamed
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 - Elizabeth Weitzman
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."

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