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Pineapple Express
A stoner and his dealer are forced to go on the run from the police after the pothead witnesses a cop commit a murder.
2008 · Directed by David Gordon Green · 112 min · Action · Comedy · Crime · Screenplay in the scene database · 19 frames
Tagline
Put this in your pipe and smoke it.
Plot
Process server and marijuana enthusiast Dale Denton visits his drug dealer Saul Silver, with whom Dale smokes the rare Pineapple Express strain before resuming work. Arriving at the home of local drug lord Ted Jones, Dale witnesses Ted and corrupt police officer Carol Brazier shoot a rival Korean gangster. While fleeing the scene, Dale causes a commotion and throws his roach containing Pineapple Express. Ted identifies the strain and sends his henchmen Budlofsky and Matheson to a drug dealer named Red, who tells them about Saul.
At Saul's apartment, Dale worries that Ted could trace the roach as only Red and Saul have the Pineapple Express strain, before Dale and Saul decide they must flee the city. After attempting to hide in the woods where Dale's car battery dies, Dale and Saul visit Red, who reveals that Ted knows who they are and intends to kill them. Budlofsky and Matheson torture Red for information and both shoot him in the abdomen. Believing Dale's high-schooler girlfriend Angie to be in danger, he and Saul head to her home where they are forced out at gunpoint by her father. Budlofsky and Matheson arrive at the house, but Dale and Saul depart before they can be captured and Angie's family goes to a motel.
Dale and Saul sell Pineapple Express to high school students to raise bus fare, but Dale is arrested by police officer Bobbra, who believes Dale's story about Officer Braizer and Ted murdering a man and says she will investigate. Thinking he is rescuing Dale, Saul hijacks the police car before Braizer, having heard of Dale's arrest on the police radio, pursues the duo in a high-speed chase that ends with the duo escaping her. After Dale and Saul argue and split up, Saul is kidnapped and held in Ted's lair. Dale breaks up with Angie over the phone after she talks about marriage, before enlisting an injured Red to help rescue Saul. However, Red backs out at the last minute and Dale is captured. While waiting to be killed, Dale and Saul reconcile their friendship and plan an escape.
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Crew
- Screenplay: Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg
- Cinematography: Tim Orr
- Edited by: Craig Alpert
- Music: Graeme Revell
- Production design: Chris L. Spellman
- Produced by: Judd Apatow, Shauna Robertson
Cast
- Seth Rogen as Dale Denton
- James Franco as Saul Silver
- Gary Cole as Ted
- Danny McBride as Red
- Rosie Perez as Carol
- Kevin Corrigan as Budlofsky
- Craig Robinson as Matheson
- Amber Heard as Angie Anderson
- Ed Begley Jr. as Robert
- Nora Dunn as Shannon
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: Cantonese, Korean, English
- Studios: Columbia Pictures, Relativity Media, Apatow Productions
- Budget: $27,000,000
- Box office: $101,624,843
- Themes: smoking, witness, cannabis, marijuana, stoner, roach, painting toenails, radio call in show, seed, stoner movie
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