Kid Cannabis
Kid Cannabis is a 2014 American biographical comedy-drama film. It is based on the true story of an Idaho teen dropout who builds a multimillion-dollar marijuana ring by trafficking drugs through the woods across the Canadian border.
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Plot
An eighteen-year-old high school drop out and his twenty-seven year old friend start trafficking marijuana across the border of Canada in order to make money and their lives are changed forever.
Cast
Amanda Tapping as Teressia Lee Franks (Norman)
Jonathan Daniel Brown as Nate Norman
Kenny Wormald as Topher
Corey Large as Giovanni
Aaron Yoo as Brendan Butler
Ron Perlman as Barry Lerner
John C. McGinley as John Grefard
Marz Lovejoy as Waitress
Production
The story is based on the life of Nate Norman, an overweight high-school dropout and pizza delivery man in Coeur D'Alene, Idaho, who built a multimillion-dollar business smuggling marijuana from Canada before eventually getting caught and sentenced to prison for 12 years. He was released early, and is currently living under home confinement in Coeur d’Alene.
Certain scenes were shot in a real-life marijuana-growing facility in Canada, where the crew was driven in a van with blacked-out windows.
Music Video
On October 5, 2014 rapper Andrew Canton released a music video of the movie on his YouTube page.
Reception
The film received positive reviews, with an 86% positive rating on Rotten Tomatoes with six reviews counted.
Box Office Mojo lists total domestic theater sales, in one theater as $5,565.
