Nice Dreams
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| Directed by | Tommy Chong |
| Produced by | Howard Brown |
| Written by | Cheech Marin Tommy Chong |
| Starring | Cheech Marin Tommy Chong Evelyn Guerrero Stacy Keach Paul Reubens Timothy Leary |
| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
| Release date(s) | 1981 |
| Running time | 88 min |
| Language | English |
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Nice Dreams was Cheech and Chong's third feature-length film, released in 1981 by Paramount. It stars Cheech Marin, Tommy Chong, Paul Reubens, Stacy Keach, Evelyn Guerrero and Timothy Leary. Chong also directed the film.
[edit] Plot
Having stolen a large amount of experimental marijuana, Cheech and Chong decide to make a fortune by selling dope-infused ice cream from their truck, which they name Happy Herb's Nice Dreams. Business is good and introduces them to a variety of freaks and weirdos. While Sgt. Stedanko (Keach reprising his role from Up in Smoke) slowly turns into a lizard (a side effect of smoking the secret recipe dope), the pair meet a coke-snorting mental patient (Paul Reubens) and redheaded Chicken Man in the mental asylum where Cheech freaks out when offered "the key to the universe" by the doctor (Timothy Leary). They find long-lost love (Guerrero reprising her role from Cheech & Chong's Next Movie) and straight-jacketed Cheech scoots around a padded cell desperately asking for someone to relieve an itch. Michael Winslow does a Jimi Hendrix routine and Cheech pretends to swim on top of a stepladder while the police are in a helicopter overhead.
[edit] Trivia
- The song Cheech and Chong sing at the beginning of the film, "Save the Whale, Shoot the Seal" is a parody of "Don't Kill the Whale" by the band Yes.
- Sandra Bernhard, Tony Cox and Geri Jewell make brief appearances during the mental asylum scenes.
- Novelty artist Afroman paid tribute to the Happy Herb's truck in his "Because I Got High" video.
- Paul Reubens' line: "You're the guy from the hamburger train, right?", is sampled at the beginning of, and lends the title to, the instrumental jam "Hamburger Train" from Primus's Pork Soda.
| Preceded by: Cheech & Chong's Next Movie |
Nice Dreams 1981 |
Succeeded by: Things Are Tough All Over |
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