Word: dopers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Doper" is a 20-minute documentary on the lifestyle of a working-class, post-high school stoner, who has no difficulty in remaining high every waking hour and still winning the "Employee of the Month Award" at the factory at which he works. The film is subtly humorous, but remarkably nonjudgmental in its delivery...
...exactly like anything you've seen before, but that doesn't mean that they are overwhelmingly radical or alternative to all mainstream culture. "Pleasant Hill, USA" has a TV news-magazine quality to it; the animation in "Facrie Film" is not all that innovative, and the dialogue in "Doper" is much like the dialogue in most films specifically targeted to teens. But just because these films draw on aspects of mainstream culture does not make them less interesting or unustral. The "Best of the New York Underground" remains an alternative to what you'll see on the big screen today...
...burden of an Italian accent not heard since the passing of Chico Marx. Ullman tamps down her TV exuberance and meekly disappears into the black hole of her role. Joan Plowright, a grande dame of English theater, plays a Yugoslav granny, and loses. William Hurt, as a dim doper hired to kill Joey, works beyond his range and beneath his gifts. The same may be said of Kasdan. The director of Body Heat and The Big Chill now wastes his time on the movie equivalent of a summer-stock trifle. Joey could tell him that sins of this magnitude ought...