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Up in Smoke
1978
· Movie
· 86 min
B
MEANRANK
70/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #2298
- IMDb #2501
- Rotten Tomatoes #2884
- Metacritic #2429
- Letterboxd #2481
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #4082
+6 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #1449
- Metacritic Critics #2775
- Metacritic Audience #1848
- Kinopoisk #1524
- AlloCiné #3042
- Trakt #2481
Every rating
45–98
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 45, highest is Google on 98. Critics average 51, everyone else 75.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →Two laid-back stoners meet by chance and embark on a hazy road trip from Los Angeles to Mexico. Their journey involves a van made entirely of fiberglass, a search for potent marijuana, and a series of comedic misadventures. Unknowingly, they become drug mules for a shipment of weed, leading them into trouble with the law and an amateur band battle.
Details
- Director
- Lou Adler
- Writers
- Cheech Marin, Tommy Chong
- Studio
- Paramount Pictures
- Released
- 15 September 1978
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English, Spanish
- Runtime
- 86 min
- Rated
- R
- Box office
- $41.6M
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Cast
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Awards
1 win total
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