The stoner comedy
High School was originally premiered at Sundance in 2010 and presented during the 2012 Sundance Film Festival finally got picked up by Anchor Bay and will be getting a semi-wide US release on June 1st, 2012.
Adrien Brody plays an eccentric drug dealer who gets his special stash stolen by two teens. So everyone in this school is high.
The film is the feature debut of director
John Stalberg Jr., who also co-wrote the script with
Erik Linthorst and
Stephen Susco, which tells the tale of soon-to-be valedictorian Henry Burke (
Matt Bush), who takes a hit of the chronic for the first time just as his school principal (
Michael Chiklis) institutes a zero tolerance drug policy and administers a mandatory drug test for all students.
Henry has two options: fail and lose his college scholarship, or team up with his stoner friend Breaux (
Sean Marquette) to beat the system. They steal a high powered ganja from law student-turned-drug-dealer Psycho Ed (Brody) and spike the school's bake sale brownies, getting the whole school completely stoned out of their minds. But with the student body getting higher and higher with every brownie, and a pissed-off Psycho Ed on their tails for stealing his stash, they must find a way to keep their half-baked plan from going up in smoke…
Watch the trailer online.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZCNUFeCkxk[/youtube]
