Jamal and Silas, two regular guys who smoke something magical, ace their college entrance exams and wind up at Harvard. Ivy League ways are strange but Silas and Jamal take it in a stride until their supply of supernatural smoke runs dry. That's when they have to start living by their wits and rely on their natural resources to make the grade.
23 June 1969, Troy, Michigan, USA
January 22, 1973 in Louisville, Kentucky, USA
28 September 1946, Buffalo, New York, USA
3 September 1970, Eugene, Oregon, USA
1 December 1951, Jamaica, New York, USA
18 November 1970, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
13 July 1971
1 July 1977
1 February 1937, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
1 July 1971, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
11 March 1980, Palo Alto, California, USA
14 June 1981, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
24 August 1954, Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA
25 November 1947, Jersey City, New Jersey, USA
1 April 1971, Richmond [now Staten Island], New York City, New York, USA
December 08, 2002
The jokes aren't funny, the characters aren't fully developed and poor editing only makes a humorless story confusing.December 25, 2001
Too lazy to be a comedy, too conventional to be a head movie.December 21, 2001
Features a fine mix of several generations of comic talent plus a terrific soundtrack from its stars.January 06, 2002
Despite the comedy's reliance on drug humor, first-time director Jesse Dylan is actually less interested in getting high than in seeing how low he can go.December 21, 2001
How High doesn't look like a movie somebody made. It looks like a movie somebody hallucinated and put up on the screen.May 27, 2002
As it stands, a movie like How High does nothing more than perpetuate the belief that marijuana is enjoyed solely by idiots.May 11, 2002
Not all the gags work, not all the gross-outs serve the greater good, but How High is funny, quick, and the very definition of a pleasant surprise.June 10, 2002
Sinfully tasteless cinema was everywhere in 2001 - but this movie is so bad it's Freudian.June 13, 2002
Silly, sloppy, and liberated from any sense of pacing or plotApril 03, 2002
You've seen it before.December 26, 2001
Maintains a consistent level of a swaggering, semi-anarchic silliness reminiscent of '70s youth-skewing comedies.December 21, 2001
Sample what you want. Doze through the rest.