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A/k/a Tommy Chong
Directed by
Josh Gilbert
Not Rated
2006
84m
Documentary
7.3
74%
80%
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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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Cast of A/k/a Tommy Chong
Tommy Chong
Himself
Cheech Marin
Himself
Jay Leno
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Bill Maher
Himself
Lou Adler
Himself
Peter Coyote
Himself
A/k/a Tommy Chong Ratings & Reviews
AV Club
Nathan Rabin
What could have been either a scathing critique of the drug war or an intimate portrait of a stoner facing mortality instead comes off as a fawning infomercial for its subject.
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
How the feds inadver tently 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.
New York Times
Manohla Dargis
Josh Gilbert's film tells the depressing, often ridiculous and generally enraging story of how and why Tommy Chong ended up doing time in a minimum-security prison.
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
This isn't a great piece of nonfiction filmmaking, but it has its moments.
New York Daily News
Elizabeth Weitzman
Even those unimpressed with [Cheech and Chong's] genially lowbrow work will be intrigued by the political tenor of this portrait.
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
It is also a portrait of resilience: Chong does his time (nine months) and has the last laugh, emerging as a born-again activist-survivor of the culture wars.
ColeSmithey.com
Cole Smithey
Josh Gilbert's curt documentary about the arrest and conviction of comedian and former bong-maker Tommy Chong reveals the federal sting operation that put Tommy Chong in a state penitentiary for nine months for shipping glass bongs to Pennsylvania.
Filmcritic.com
Chris Cabin
should have gone for more
Premiere Magazine
Ethan Alter
Apparently granted unlimited access to Chong's personal archives, Gilbert digs up some great footage and photos from his early years as well his '70s heyday.
Groucho Reviews
Peter Canavese
Josh Gilbert's smoothly produced documentary a/k/a Tommy Chong should leave even Nancy Reagan aghast at the unfair trials of comedian Tommy Chong.
Slant Magazine
Nick Schager
Its dramatic thinness doesn't dilute its simultaneously ridiculous and terrifying portrait of federal prosecution run amok.
Greenwich Village Gazette
Eric Lurio
This is an important propaganda film. After all, Gilbert has all the facts in hand and presents it halfway decently.
Film Scouts
Jason Gorber
Rather than some rambling, pro-pot film, this flick actually does a pretty good job of documenting the issues surrounding Chong's arrest, and the obvious intention by the Ashcroft justice department to bring down an icon of the debauched 70s.
Village Voice
Rob Nelson
This genial doc sprinkles Reagan and Nixon soundbites over its vintage stash of C&C clips for a suitably fuzzy squint at America from '69 to the buzzkill present.
The Hollywood Reporter
John DeFore
First-time filmmaker Josh Gilbert, whose skills behind the camera are rudimentary, might be a bit too close to his subject to do disinterested viewers justice.
Variety
Robert Koehler
A cheeky, somewhat suspect documentary on the battles between an icon of stoner comedy and the Feds, a/k/a Tommy Chong serves up a biased account of Chong's arrest and incarceration for manufacturing drug paraphernalia.
Bay Area Reporter
David Lamble
...funny/scary account of the persecution of another of Lenny's disciples.
Film Threat
KJ Doughton
A surprisingly clear-eyed, sober account of what it's liked to be embraced by a culture, while loathed by the Powers That Be.
LYTRules.com
Luke Y. Thompson
The movie's value varies according to how much of the story you already know.
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