Showtime's 'Reefer' is not smoking.(Reefer Madness)(Television Program Review)

Multichannel News | April 11, 2005| | Copyright

A small-screen adaptation of an award-winning off-Broadway musical, Showtime's musical rendition of Reefer Madness tries to be as deliberately funny as the 1930s cautionary tale that inspired it.

But sometimes one can try too hard.

Loosely adapted from the cult classic, Reefer Madness takes viewers to a generic small-town high school in 1936, where "The Lecturer" (Alan Cumming) is revealing the shocking facts about marijuana to an auditorium of Midwestern-looking parents.

The Lecturer makes his point by showing a film-within-a-film, the story of ...

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