The Stoned Age

  • Michael Kopelow: Joe Connolly
  • Bradford Tatum: Michael Hubbs
  • China Kantner: Jill Wajakawakawitz
  • Renee Ammann: Lanie
  • Clifton Collins Jr.: Tack
  • Kevin Kilner: Officer Dean
  • Jake Busey: Muldoon

Chicks is an American film directed by James Melkonian from the year 1994. The film is part of a series of stoner movies, which are referred to in the U.S. as a stoner movie. As more movies of this kind, for example, be Confusion - Summer of Freaked, Cheech and Chong or Half Baked viewed.

Action

The film is about the two losers Joe and Hubbs, who spend their evenings in Los Angeles so in an old blue Volkswagen liquor drinking and smoking grass to drive through the area, while women try (german chicks ) tear.

Tack, a mind of low income, biersaufender type, tells them of a horde of girls he has seen house at Torrance Beach, opposite the old Frankie Avalon. As she later learned, however, little of their acquaintances Crumb, has his brother and city known bat, already torn up the girls. As the film succeeds Joe and Hubbs, the two girls Jill and Lanie to win for themselves. They have to withstand a lot of uncertainties. So you have to get, for example, eighty percent rum, protect the girl against the ever-recurring tack or go permanent police confrontations.

Music

The film is the late seventies and presents a lot of classic rock hits. As a fitting introductory theme song Paranoid by Black Sabbath was chosen. Also, reference is made repeatedly to the rock group Blue Öyster Cult (BOC ). A CD with all the titles as film music, however, was not published.

Trivia

  • The film was available on the German market for a long time only on VHS ( VMP Entertainment). Only in 2008 a German DVD released. This contributes to deviate from the VHS version subtitle Total stoned.
  • Lanie is always compared in the movie with the girl from the Virgin Killer album. This is a reference to the eponymous album by the German rock band Scorpions.
  • The beer brand Ox 45 is repeatedly whether directly as cans of beer or a bull's head on the wall, displayed on T -shirts. It is an allusion to the popular American brand Colt 45, but the label was not allowed to be shown in the film.
  • Frankie Avalon has finally made ​​a guest appearance, playing himself in a situation in which he studied the old Frankie Avalon house at the end of the film.
  • Joe reported continually from a concert by American rock group Blue Öyster Cult, in which he was hit by a laser. At the end of the film uncredited Eric Bloom and Donald " Buck Dharma " Roeser emerge from the group BOC and Joe want to sell an original Godzilla t-shirt for five dollars.
  • Producer David Heyman is also a producer of Harry Potter.
  • Jake Busey, son of the famous in Germany American actor Gary Busey, here has a supporting role as Muldoon.
  • The film is set in the fictional country according Intro suburbia.
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