Best Drug Movies

G.S. Noonan — Sat, 13 Sep 2014 02:38:16 +0000

For the adventurous and the broken, sometimes reality just isn’t enough. Over the years, bohemian filmmakers and others enamored vicariously with the lifestyle of raffish and desperate drifters have committed stories of the highs and lows of illicit drug use. Often, drugs serve as a backdrop to a character, perhaps to inform the audience that this person is aberrant, or simply weak willed. Other times, drugs help to give a character mystique or some sense of mystical power.

Drug movies run the gamut of perspective from stories of the devastating powers of addiction and helplessness, like Trainspotting, or Requiem for a Dream, to absurdity and horror, or just plain hilarity. Reefer Madness, an anti-marijuana propaganda film from the 1950s is ironically celebrated by “stoner audiences” as a cult classic. Terry Gilliam’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, the story of alternative cultural icon, Hunter S. Thompson covering drag races in Nevada for Sports Illustrated, uses drug use as a narrative excuse to create surrealist imagery and vaguely satirical commentary on society and its norms. Of course more often than not, drug use facilitates comic relief and ridiculous escapades such as in Pineapple Express, or Half Baked.

These are some of the most noteworthy drug films in no particular order

(2008) Pineapple Express

(1998) Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

(1996) Trainspotting

(2000) Requiem For A Dream

(1994) Clerks

(1998) The Big Lebowski

(1983) Scarface

(1969) Easy Rider

(2013) The Wolf of Wall Street

(2010) Enter The Void

(2001) Blow

Blow

celluloid — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:37:58 +0000

Year:2001

Director:Ted Demme

Written by:Bruce Porter (Author), David McKenna (Screenplay), Nick Cassavetes (Screenplay), Bruce Porter (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:A boy named George Jung grows up in a struggling family in the 1950's. His mother nags at her husband as he is trying to make a living for the family. It is finally revealed that George's father cannot make a living and the family goes bankrupt. George does not want the same thing to happen to him, and his friend Tuna, in the 1960's, suggests that he deal marijuana. He is a big hit in California in the 1960's, yet he goes to jail, where he finds out about the wonders of cocaine. As a result, when released, he gets rich by bringing cocaine to America. However, he soon pays the price.

Blow Script Resources:

Blow Script PDF at The Script Savant
Blow Script at IMSDb
Blow Script at Screenplays For You
Blow Script at The Daily Script
Blow Script PDF - [10/14/99][Cassavetes] at Script Fly ($)
Blow Script PDF - [3RD 8/27/99][McKenna-Cassavetes] at Script Fly ($)
Blow Script PDF - [12/1/98][McKenna-Cassavetes] at Script Fly ($)
Blow Script PDF - 10/14/99 5TH at Script City ($)

Note: Multiple links are listed since (a) different versions exist and (b) many scripts posted become unavailable over time. Please notify me if you encounter a stale link.

Blow script – Scripts on Screen

Best Drug Movies

Blow