DOCUMENTARY - TOMMY CHONG-USA V THOMAS B [IMPORT]

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• Release Year: 2005
• Genre: Comedy, Documentary
• Plot: At the height of the Bush administration, Tommy Chong of Cheech and Chong was charged with selling bongs over the internet and sentenced to nine months in federal prison. As part of the government's $12 million drug paraphernalia sting operation, 'Operation Pipe Dreams,' Chong, a vocal opponent of Bush's handling of the War on Terror, was singled out among 55 defendants to serve time. Filmmaker Josh Gilbert captures the post-prison, avuncular Chong as he turns his SWAT team arrest into hilarious stand-up material. But our laughs are seasoned by the reconition of our government's questionable priorities and its shameless use of the judicial system to scapegoat a counterculture icon.
• Cast: Lou Adler, Raven Bast, Paris Chong, Shelby Chong, Tommy Chong, Peter Coyote, Pablo Ferro, Steven Hager, Jay Leno, Bill Maher, Cheech Marin, Paul Moyer, Ethan Nadelmann, Eric Schlosser, Red Skelton, Tom Snyder, George Thorogood, Jesse Ventura, Witold 'Vic' Walczak, John Ashcroft, George W. Bush, Alan M. Dershowitz, Josh Gilbert, Richard Nixon, Nancy Reagan, Ronald Reagan, Geraldo Rivera, Arnold Schwarzenegger
• Director: Josh Gilbert
• Runtime: 1:20
• Company: AWESOME Documentaries, Blue Chief Entertainment, Surreel
• Media Format: Movie