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Pineapple Express (2008)

★ 6.6 · 4,164 ratings on TMDB

Put this in your pipe and smoke it.

Pineapple Express poster★ 6.6

A stoner and his dealer are forced to go on the run from the police after the pothead witnesses a cop commit a murder.

DirectorDavid Gordon Green
CastAmber Heard, Craig Robinson, Danny McBride, Ed Begley Jr., Gary Cole, James Franco
GenresAction, Comedy, Crime
The emergence reading

Pineapple Express keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E11 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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Same rung, same subject

Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.

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Same subject, different rung

The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.

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Same people

Shared director or cast.

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