This article is about the 1978 Cheech & Chong film. For the 2000 hip-hop tour, see Up In Smoke Tour.
Up in Smoke, directed by Lou Adler, is Cheech and Chong's first feature-length film, released in 1978 by Paramount Pictures. It stars Cheech Marin, Tommy Chong, Edie Adams, Strother Martin and Stacy Keach.
Cheech and Chong had been a comedy team for about ten years before they started reworking some of their material for their first film. Much of ...
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This article is about the 1978 Cheech & Chong film. For the 2000 hip-hop tour, see Up In Smoke Tour.
Up in Smoke, directed by Lou Adler, is Cheech and Chong's first feature-length film, released in 1978 by Paramount Pictures. It stars Cheech Marin, Tommy Chong, Edie Adams, Strother Martin and Stacy Keach.
Cheech and Chong had been a comedy team for about ten years before they started reworking some of their material for their first film. Much of the film was shot in Los Angeles, California, including scenes filmed in Tijuana, Mexico. Scenes set on the Mexican border were actually filmed at the border in Yuma, Arizona.
Tommy Chong plays Man, a jobless drummer who is kicked out of his house by his father. (Chong's character name is Anthony Stoner, but is mentioned only once.) Man manages to trick Pedro de Pacas (played by Cheech Marin) into picking him up off the side of a highway by posing as a woman with large breasts. They share a large joint, which Chong's character says is made...
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