Half Baked(1998)

Universal Pictures

R
Rated R for pervasive drug content, language, nudity and sexual material
1h 22m
- Comedy
- Crime

Release Date: Jan 16, 1998 | Wide

The story of three not so bright men who come up with a series of crazy schemes to get a friend out of jail.

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Director & Top Cast

Tamra Davis
Director

Dave Chappelle
Thurgood, Sir Smoka Lot

Guillermo Diaz
Scarface

Jim Breuer
Brian

Harland Williams
Kenny

Rachel True
Mary Jane

Clarence Williams III

Samson Simpson

Laura Silverman

Jan

Tommy Chong

Squirrel Master

R.D. Reid

Scientist

Gregg Rogell

Pothead

Kevin Brennan

Pothead

Alice Poon

Supply Clerk

Rick Demas

Nasty Nate

David Bluestein

Jerry Garcia

Kevin Duhaney

Young Thurgood

Matthew Raposo

Young Scarface

James Cooper

Young Brian

Technical Specifications

Sound Mix: DTS-Stereo,DTS,SDDS

Aspect Ratio: 1.85 : 1

Other Details

Country of Origin: United States

Language: English,Turkish

Summaries

Plot Summary

Thurgood (Dave Chappelle), Scarface (Guillermo Diaz), Brian (Jim Breur) and Kenny (Harland Williams) are childhood friends who discover marijuana. They grow up together and live in an apartment in New York. During a smoke, they send Kenny to get food. Kenny sees a horse, and starts feeding it treats. The horse dies (it's apparently diabetic), and Kenny goes to jail. His bail is set at $1,000,000. The guys get a lift home by a hot Mary Jane Potman (Rachel True), and Thurgood falls in love.Thurgood is given some medicinal marijuana by a scientist, and the guys decide to sell more of it to raise bail money. Meanwhile, Thurgood and Mary Jane go on a date, and Thurgood promises not to smoke. He fails.The weed sales go through the roof, and many customers partake (John Stewart, Snoop Dog, Willie Nelson, Stephen Baldwin, Jeneane Garofalo, Bob Saget and others). Scarface and Brian leave their jobs to spend more time selling. Thurgood tries to stay righteous as Brian and Scarface start spending their profits. When Mary Jane breaks up with Thurgood, he promises to stop smoking.Meanwhile, Samson, a rival drug dealer, discovers the guys and trashes their apartment. He demands a meeting with the guys and tells them to pay him half their profits. The Guy on the Couch (Steven Wright) suggests they rob the lab for weed, but get caught. Thurgood offers to set up Samson. The cops allow them to get high before the deal, and the cops get high and forget to make the bust. The guys defeat Samson's hench-women, and Brian summons the spirit of Jerry Garcia (David Bluestein) to defeat Samson.The cops honor the deal to release Kenny, and Thurgood reunites with Mary Jane, giving up pot for good. The end.

Storyline

After Kenny accidentally kills a cop's diabetic horse by feeding it the food he purchased from a munchie run, he is put in jail and is given a 1 million dollar bail. The rest of the group must bail Kenny out before Nasty Nate gets to him. The group decides to sell marijuana that Thurgood gets through his job as a janitor at a pharmaceutical lab. They become pals with rap star Sir Smoke-A-Lot and the rivals of dealer Samson Simpson. On the side, Thurgood seeks the love of Mary Jane, an anti-pot daughter of a dealer. What follows is typical pothead behaviour with a ton of cameos. Look carefully. — Tim Brooks <tbrooks@mminternet.com> Friends since childhood and now roommates in New York City, Thurgood, Scarface, Brian and Kenny are underachieving potheads, that underachieving nature demonstrated by not striving for anything beyond their current jobs of a janitor at a medical research facility, a line cook at a fast food restaurant, a record store clerk, and a kindergarten teacher due to his own childlike nature, respectively. Their collective lives are upended when Kenny is imprisoned after he inadvertently kills a diabetic "police officer" - a horse - by feeding it junk food. With Kenny emotionally ill-equipped to handle prison life, the other three are determined at least to get him out of prison by raising the $1 million bail. They think they have a way to raise the money when Thurgood discovers that there is a vast amount of marijuana at his work site, some of which they plan to steal to sell. Beyond actually stealing the marijuana, they come into two problems: first, they come to the attention of their regular marijuana dealer, Samson, who will not tolerate the competition; and second, Thurgood meets and falls for Mary Jane, from who he not only has to hide his drug dealing but the fact that he basically lives on weed, as she is anti-drug, including being anti-marijuana. — Huggo