Based on an outrageous true story, KID CANNABIS blends ‘Superbad’ and ‘Blow’ to create a riotous teen comedy about a wise-cracking high-school drop-out and his transformation into a multi-million dollar marijuana mogul.
Meet Nate Norman (CHRIS MARQUETTE) – your typical American teenage slob. Spending his days in the excitement-free zone of suburban Idaho, playing video games, eating pizza and getting high with his best friend Topher, it’s all too clear that Nate is going nowhere fast. But after suffering yet another humiliation at the hands of the local hard-nut drug-dealer Brendan Butler (AARON YOO), Nate realises that he’s had enough of being a bottom-feeder. During a habitual pot-smoking session with Topher, he comes up with ‘The Idea’…
Nate tells it like this – the one redeeming feature of his trash-can of a home town is that it’s only 100 miles from the finest marijuana on the planet, ‘B.C. Bud’ – one of Canada’s most lucrative exports. What’s more, the Canadian border is over 5,000 miles across, with no fence, and is almost entirely un-patrolled. There’s a $7-billion-a-year industry just waiting to be taken advantage of. Buy low, sell high, and cut out the middleman – happy days. And it’s low risk – as Nate points out, only the dumb people get caught…
After gaining some start-up capital by selling a sunken boat from a nearby lake, Nate and Topher hit the ground running. Their first border run turns out to be all too easy; a combination of Nate’s wise-cracking charm, Topher’s inventive, finely-honed smuggling techniques and an absurdly friendly Canadian policeman means getting drugs over the border is a breeze. Things are looking sweet. But when Nate uses his sharp-talking charm to hook up with a shady multi-millionaire businessman, things go stratospheric overnight. Suddenly Nate is making a million dollars a month, and employing his friends and family as the godfather of a hugely successful drugs cartel. Nate’s lifestyle goes from ‘Playstation’ to ‘Playboy Mansion’ – money, cars, and naked women, it’s all good – and Nate is living the dream.
But when Brendan Butler’s business begins to feel the pinch of Nate’s new found success, the psychotic Korean drug-dealer lets his ‘Scarface’ fixation go to his head, and out come the guns. It’s all about to kick off, and very soon, things are going to get chronic…
A wickedly funny drug-running comedy that’s much more ‘Pineapple Express’ than ‘Midnight Express’, KID CANNABIS twists the coolness of ‘Risky Business’ for the slacker generation. Boasting razor-sharp dialogue and edge-of-your-seat thrills, this is a comedy classic in the making from the director of the smash-hit ‘Blue Crush’.
