Weeds

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Weeds

R

1987

1h 55m

Drama

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71%

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7 Reviews

51%

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After his many suicide attempts are thwarted, San Quentin lifer Lee Umstetter (Nick Nolte) finds his personal redemption when a traveling theater group stages a performance at the prison. Motivated to write and direct his own play with his fellow prisoners, Lee is discovered by a sympathetic newspaper critic (Rita Taggart), whose advocacy leads to his release. Forming his own theater troupe with other former inmates, Lee finds that life on the outside isn't as easy as he had expected.

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Roger Ebert

Chicago Sun-Times

01/01/2000

3/4

Weeds tells a story as old as the movies -- the rags-to-riches saga of a troupe of theatrical amateurs who bring their show to Broadway -- but it tells it with such a distinctive style, such a curious mixture of pathos and offhand wit, that it works.

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Michael Bronski

Gay Community News (Boston)

08/30/2022

The trouble with the film is that it cannot decide how seriously to address the realities of prison life and its effects upon the men.

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Rene Jordan

El Nuevo Herald (Miami)

06/14/2022

Its so atypical, so idiosyncratic, so abnormal that it's to be respected for its audacity to stand out, and come out with a result completely contrary to what the spectator expected. [Full review in Spanish]

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Emanuel Levy

EmanuelLevy.Com

06/15/2005

B

Carol Cling

Las Vegas Review-Journal

08/22/2003

4/5

Philip Martin

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

07/26/2002

2/5

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Synopsis

After his many suicide attempts are thwarted, San Quentin lifer Lee Umstetter (Nick Nolte) finds his personal redemption when a traveling theater group stages a performance at the prison. Motivated to write and direct his own play with his fellow prisoners, Lee is discovered by a sympathetic newspaper critic (Rita Taggart), whose advocacy leads to his release. Forming his own theater troupe with other former inmates, Lee finds that life on the outside isn't as easy as he had expected.

Director: John D. Hancock
Producer: Bill Badalato
Screenwriter: Dorothy Tristan, John D. Hancock
Rating: R
Genre: Drama
Original Language: English
Box Office (Gross USA): $1.5M
Runtime: 1h 55m
Sound Mix: Stereo, Surround

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