
Half Baked(1998)
Three lovable party buds try to bail their friend out of jail. But just when the guys have mastered a plan, everything comes dangerously close to going up in smoke.


“Put this in your pipe and smoke it.”
A stoner and his dealer are forced to go on the run from the police after the pothead witnesses a cop commit a murder.

Seth Rogen
Dale Denton

James Franco
Saul Silver

Gary Cole
Ted

Danny McBride
Red

Rosie Perez
Carol

Kevin Corrigan
Budlofsky

Craig Robinson
Matheson

Amber Heard
Angie Anderson

Ed Begley Jr.
Robert

Nora Dunn
Shannon
Pineapple Express is a action, comedy, crime film released in 2008 exploring themes of smoking, witness, cannabis, marijuana, stoner, roach. Directed by David Gordon Green, it stars Seth Rogen, James Franco, Gary Cole. A stoner and his dealer are forced to go on the run from the police after the pothead witnesses a cop commit a murder.
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