A student tries pot for the first time, loves it and decides to distribute it in a big business kind of way. Soon he has the police and the mafia on his tail.
Direction
De Souza's only directing credit before becoming a blockbuster screenwriter.
Production
Micro-budget San Francisco locations shot on weekends.
Director
Steven E. de Souza
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Steven E. de Souza later commanded $3 million per script for 48 Hrs. and Commando; this was shot for roughly the cost of a used Volkswagen.
Released months before the DEA's founding, the film treats drug distribution as a harmless hustle rather than moral panic—making it a weirdly innocent artifact of pre-Reagan drug policy.
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