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Directed by | Jesse Dylan |
Produced by | Pamela Abdy Danny DeVito James Ellis Shauna Garr Michael Shamberg Stacey Sher |
Written by | Dustin Abraham |
Starring |
Method Man Redman Obba Babatundé Lark Voorhies Mike Epps |
Music by | Rockwilder |
Cinematography | Francis Kenny |
Edited by | Larry Bock |
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Jersey Films
Native Pictures |
Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
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Running time
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93 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $20 million |
Box office | $31,283,790 |
How High is a 2001 stoner film starring Method Man and Redman, written by Dustin Lee Abraham, and director Jesse Dylan's debut feature film.
The plot is centered on two underachieving pot smokers: Silas (Method Man) and Jamal (Redman). When Silas's friend Ivory (Chuck Davis) dies, Silas uses his ashes as fertilizer for a new batch of marijuana. While both are sitting in the parking lot before taking their "THC" (Testing for Higher Credentials, a parody of the SAT in allusion to Tetrahydrocannabinol) exams for college, neither is able to smoke his individual marijuana stash without the help of the other.
They soon discover that smoking Silas's new batch summons the ghost of the recently deceased Ivory, visible to just the two of them. Ivory tells them the test answers as they take the test and they both score perfect scores. Several dubious colleges offer the pair scholarships, but none of them are appealing. Eventually, Chancellor Huntley (Fred Willard) suggests the two apply to Harvard University.
Once there, they meet Bart (Chris Elwood), captain of the rowing team, his girlfriend Lauren (Lark Voorhies), I Need Money (Al Shearer), and their roommates Jeffrey (Justin Urich) & Tuan (Trieu Tran). Once they are settled in, they visit Dean Carl Cain (Obba Babatundé) who tells them that per the terms of their scholarship, they must maintain a minimum grade point average of 2.0 in order to remain at Harvard, or else face expulsion.