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The Wide World of Drug Movies
By Alison Willmore
, Matt Singer
on 06/30/2008
Ben Kingsley in "The Wackness," Sony Pictures Classics, 2008
In this week's "The Wackness," one-time Nickelodeon star Josh Peck plays a teenager who spends the summer of 1994 dealing pot out of an ice cream cart and consuming plenty of his own product. In honor of the film, and in particular of Ben Kingsley's admirably fried performance as a shrink who accepts weed in lieu of cash for sessions, we're spending this IFC News podcast in the world of drug movies, from stoner comedies like "Smiley Face" to meth dramas like "Spun."
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Good subject. I think you guys could have done a whole subgroup on fictional drugs. Movies like A Scanner Darkly with Substance D, Naked Lunch with that bug spray stuff, I think the milk in a Clockwork Orange was a little funny, and I'm sure Brave New World's Soma has bee in some bad adaptation or another of the book. I think in this case, these drugs are used as a tool to give the viewer incite into the cultural fabric of some future world, or into the depths of William bourroughs's whacked out brain. A;so you could have had a miscellaneous drug section just because of whatever the hell Dennis Hopper was doing in Blue Velvet.