Kid Cannabis

Although the film begins promisingly with many amusing moments... it eventually degenerates into all-too-familiar territory.

A rollicking tale of border-running teenage pot entrepreneurs based on the real-life story of Nate Norman.

Energetic and involving ...

Nate comes across as an insufferably arrogant twerp stupid enough to believe there's loyalty in the underworld.

The film works best when it shows Jonathan Daniel Brown's drug kingpin at his most inept and incapable, rather than elevating him to a pothead martyr.

Writer-director John Stockwell finds the perfect loose yet manic tone for his ode to weed, filling his script with mordantly pungent lines

Brown's performance as Norman goes deep enough to penetrate his protective bluster: There's more Max Fischer in him than Tony Montana. He's the reason this convincing pro-legalization editorial is also a memorable coming-of-age story.