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| Directed by | Tommy Chong |
| Written by | Cheech Marin Tommy Chong |
| Produced by | Howard Brown |
| Starring | Cheech Marin Tommy Chong Evelyn Guerrero Stacy Keach Paul Reubens Timothy Leary Peter Jason |
| Cinematography | Charles Correll Brianne Murphy |
| Edited by | Thomas K. Advildsen Tony Lombardo |
| Music by | Harry Betts |
| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
Release date | June 5, 1981[1] |
Running time | 88 min |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Nice Dreams is Cheech & Chong's third feature-length film, released in 1981 by Columbia Pictures. It stars Cheech Marin, Tommy Chong, Paul Reubens, Stacy Keach, Evelyn Guerrero and Timothy Leary. Chong also directed the film.
Plot
The two stoners Cheech and Chong have a new business, an ice cream stand named "Happy Herb's Nice Dreams." The ice cream isn't real— it's made out of marijuana, stolen from their friend Weird Jimmy whose plantation is under their beach house camouflaged as a pool.
The two sell the "ice cream" from their truck, and even make trips to a gym. The two soon make a fortune. They plan to become "Sun Kings in Paradise" which involves buying an island, guitars, and getting lots of women.
The police are on Cheech and Chong's tails from the start, as they trick the stoners into selling them some of their "ice cream." Sgt. Stedanko (Keach, reprising his role from Up in Smoke), now himself a stoner, tests the marijuana and slowly turns into a lizard (a side effect). The police storm their house, and Cheech and Chong pack up the marijuana ice cream in their truck and drive off, leaving Weird Jimmy to be arrested. Sgt. Stedanko sends out two police officers to find and arrest the stoners.
Cheech and Chong go to a Chinese restaurant to celebrate their fortune. There they encounter a record agent who loves Chong (mistaking him for Jerry Garcia), followed by Cheech's ex-girlfriend Donna (Guerrero, reprising her role from Cheech & Chong's Next Movie) and a cocaine-snorting mental patient, Howie "Hamburger Dude" (Paul Reubens). The four of them snort cocaine under the table, and Chong signs away all their money to Howie for a useless check (which they are unable to cash due to Chong having no ID).
Cheech takes a drunk Donna out to their truck to have sex, but she passes out. Two incompetent CHP's show up, almost busting Cheech, when Chong shows up driving their ice cream truck. Not wanting to file reports of the arrest, the cops let Cheech and Chong go.
The two head back to Donna's apartment. While attempting a threesome, Chong goes to get ice. At this point, Donna's biker husband Animal shows up, having broken out of prison. Cheech tries to escape out the window and ends up climbing the hotel naked. Chong then returns to the room and hides. Eventually, Animal gets Donna on the bed and has sex with her. Cheech gets back into the hotel and returns to the room. They steal back their clothes and leave.
The Cheech realizes Chong has signed away all their money to Howie. After getting a lift from the two cops sent by Stedanko, the two stoners find and break into the address on the check: a mental institution. They spend the night, and in the morning they find Howie among the inmates. Cheech tries to grab Howie to get their money, but the doctors there believe Cheech to be mentally unstable, so he is locked in a straitjacket and chained up in a soft-padded room. Chong finds a doctor (Timothy Leary) to help, and Cheech and Chong are both offered "the key to the universe" (LSD) by the doctor.
The next morning, the head nurse wakes them. She has realized what has happened and apologizes to them, returns their money and sets them free. At this point, Stedanko's cops show up and arrest the head nurse and Howie instead, the stoners having escaped prior.
With Weird Jimmy's marijuana plantation busted, Cheech and Chong are left with no other way to make money and become strippers at "Club Paradise", where they are billed as "The Sun Kings."
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References
- ^ New York Times, June 5, 1981