Growing Op

Growing Op (2008)

  • 60% of users liked it
    (545 ratings)

The home-schooled son of loving, marijuana-growing hippies discovers the twisted values of the suburban status quo in this comedy featuring Rosanna Arquette and Rachel Blanchard. Quinn Dawson (Staven Yaffee) may be your average teenager, though his parents are far from your typical, white-picket… More

Unrated, 1 hr. 35 min.
Directed By
Michael Melski
Written By
Michael Melski
Genres
Drama, Comedy
In Theaters
Oct 31, 2008 Wide
On DVD
May 4, 2010
Mongrel Media

Critic Reviews

  • Jason Anderson, Toronto Star

    Growing Op strains hard to deliver edgy humour with a dollop of heart but is too stilted and derivative to carry it off.

  • David Nusair, Reel Film Reviews

    A typically quirky Canadian comedy...

  • Liz Braun, Jam! Movies

    Growing Op has bad writing -- predictable and one-dimensional -- but after about 90 minutes, the story starts taking surprise turns that don't make a lot of sense.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Professor W


    I went into this movie not expecting much but I came out very satisfied. It's not really a stoner movie like Dazed & Confused or Harold & Kumar but I think stoners will definitively love it. It's about this kid with parents who are very anti-establishment and… More

  • Curt C


    [28th Atlantic Film Festival] An intriguing twist on the pothead genre - Quinn (Steven Yaffee) is a sober, caring, inquisitive child who longs for a normal, suburban existence. The catch, is that his family runs a marijuana operation in their household. This is a very fresh take on… More

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