Earlier in the year I posted a trailer for a stoner comedy called HIGH SCHOOL, which just so happened to be pretty popular among the attendees of the Sundance Film Festival. Well now, after a long absence from the film world, High School is starting to do a bit of marketing for its unknown release date by sharing two brand new clips with us.
This clever weed film is about a high school valedictorian who must beat the newly implemented drug test at school after trying marijuana for the first time. The film stars Adrien Brody (Splice), who looks crazy as the rastafarian drug dealer, Colin Hanks (Orange County), Michael Chiklis (The Shield), Yeardley Smith, and Michael Vartan in a movie. It is directed by newcomer John Stalberg Jr. Hit the jump to check out the rather entertaining clips along with a synopsis of the film.
So it’s the end of the school year, and smarmy Principal Gordon (Michael Chiklis) has suddenly instituted a zero-tolerance crusade against his nemesis, the reviled marijuana. A mandatory drug test for all students is to be administered, failure of which will result in immediate expulsion. Normally, this would be of no consequence to straight-arrow valedictorian Henry Burke, except he just tried ganja for the very first time. With his college scholarship hanging in the balance, Burke begrudgingly teams up with charismatic pothead Travis Breaux to do the only thing they can think of to neutralize this threat—get the entire student body stoned.
In his debut feature, director/cowriter John Stalberg Jr. percolates his deliriously manic narrative with sparkling energy and deviant characters, joyously ramming his protagonists deeper and deeper into frenzied chaos. HIGH school paints its slacker wit with lush broad strokes, firmly accomplishing the conclusive stoner fantasia run hilariously amuck.
There is currently no release date for HIGH SCHOOL but you can count on me to keep you updated as soon as its date is released.
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