This isn't a great piece of nonfiction filmmaking, but it has its moments.
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06/30/06
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A/K/A Tommy Chong (2005)
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Reviews Counted:8
Fresh:5
Rotten:3
Average Rating:5.5/10
Runtime: 80 mins
Genre: Television
Synopsis: a/k/a Tommy Chong is a dynamic portrait of comedy legend Tommy Chong, set against the unfolding political horror story of post 911 America. Filmmaker Josh Gilbert follows the tragic and absurd tale... [More]
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Reviews for A/K/A Tommy Chong
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Top CriticEven those unimpressed with [Cheech and Chong's] genially lowbrow work will be intrigued by the political tenor of this portrait.
06/16/06
Top CriticIt 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.
06/14/06
Top CriticJosh 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.
06/14/06
Top CriticHow 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.
06/14/06
Top CriticThis 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.
06/13/06
Top CriticFirst-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.
04/26/06
Top CriticA 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.
10/13/05
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