Stars: Method Man, Redman, Mike Epps, Obba Babatunde, Anna Maria Horsford, Jeffrey Jones, Hector Elizondo, Fred Willard, Alan Shearer, Lark Voorhies, Hector Elizondo

Director: Jesse Dylan

Summary: High school students Silas and Jamal have two aims in life - to get high and to get girls. Silas discovers some 'Superweed' which has a surprising effect - the pair start to achieve really good grades at school and manage to get accepted at Harvard University...

HOW HIGH is a raucous comedy about two underachieving potheads from the projects, Cyrus and Jamal (rappers Method Man and Redman), who, through bizarre circumstances, end up attending Harvard University. It all begins when Cyrus' friend Ivory dies, and Cyrus uses his ashes as fertilizer to grow marijuana. When the two are taking their college entrance exams, Jamal explains his philosophy: "Study high. Take the test high. Get high scores." Smoking Cyrus' magical weed somehow summons the ghost of the brainy Ivory, who gives them all the answers to the exam. They are recruited by Chancellor Huntley (Fred Willard) to attend Harvard, where they use the weed to continue their academic success, but thanks to the machinations of the uptight Dean Cain (Obba Babatunde), they soon find themselves without Ivory's help, and are forced to maintain their scholarship grades on their own. The plot reaches its peak of comic ludicrousness when the hapless duo attempts to dig up and smoke the remains of John Quincy Adams. HOW HIGH features Mike Epps, Tracy Morgan, and Spalding Gray in supporting roles. The film is scabrously funny and refreshingly free of logic, reason, and political correctness.

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Grab your favourite munchies: Red and Meth, that dope-addled dynamic duo, are going to Harvard. And while it's not exactly demanding viewing, How Highis destined to become a guilty pleasure of the cannabis crowd. The plot's a familiar one--take the basic selling points of any Cheech &Chong movie (a pair of shambolic protagonists who smoke lots of weed and drive funky 70s-style cars), graft them onto a generic "raising hell on campus" teen movie scenario and shake vigorously. The result is a prosaic effort that does contain some all-too-brief moments of genuine humour. Red and Meth, aka Redman and Method Man, may look like the world's oldest freshmen, but both offer genial performances, especially Method Man, who imbues the character of Silas with a dog-eared gentleness that raises him above the film's leaden script and plastic directing. --Rebecca Levine

Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Year:	2001
Release Date:	April 6, 2009
Runtime:	94 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	9038359
Keywords:	High, Comedy, Off, General, How, Schedule
Genre:	Comedy