Tell Your Children
Tell Your Children
NR | 15 June 1938 (USA)
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High-school principal Dr. Alfred Carroll relates to an audience of parents that marijuana can have devastating effects on teens: a drug supplier entices several restless teens, Mary and Jimmy Lane, sister and brother, and Bill, Mary's boyfriend, into frequenting a reefer house. Gradually, Bill and Jimmy are drawn into smoking dope, which affects their family lives.

Reviews
Acensbart Excellent but underrated film
Fairaher The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.
Keira Brennan The movie is made so realistic it has a lot of that WoW feeling at the right moments and never tooo over the top. the suspense is done so well and the emotion is felt. Very well put together with the music and all.
Geraldine The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.
stevehoyland You MUST see the original "Reefer Madness" before watching this, otherwise the parody aspect would be difficult to understand. This Is an excellent movie, a brilliant parody, superb satire, and although musicals are certainly not my bag, I even enjoy the tunes & dances. Please make sure you watch the original first, otherwise you'll not be able to appreciate the excellence of this gem! Skilled actors, great dancers and laughs by the bucket-load...what more could you want? Have a drink and a smoke before watching(over 21's only of course).
unkabob You can laugh, you can puff while watching.. You can even reminisce about the first time you watched the dog but know this.. This rag was the definitive flick that was shown as evidence in that kangaroo court which turned around and passed the law of illegality of marijuana and it has lasted all these years as if it were truth. It was a MOVIE! and our idiots in g'meant used it to suppress otherwise 'free' Americans from enjoying it... for OUR protection. What an injustice!.. What a suppression.. What a bunch of BS!! and here you are watching it in glee as if it hadn't contributed in suppressing an inalienable right. Oh well, at least I'm not laughing (and never will).
anthony-rigoni Yes folks, this movie is like Baby Geniuses as if it were made in the 1930's instead of 1999. Reefer Madness is, I think, the first worst movie even before Santa Claus Conquers the Martians. Reefer Madness tells the account of a bunch of teens that were high as a kite. And when I said high as a kite, I meant that they were on marijuana. Marijuana, according to film, was considered to be "The real public enemy #1!" What, was Al Capone absent to take the Public Enemy #1 title? The acting was so bad that I swear that one the actors is related to the director of Bebe's Kids. Okay, I'm not a fan of marijuana, but I think this movie must've explain the effects of this so-called "public enemy #1" in an exaggerating way. This movie was even considered to be propaganda by the Nostalgia Critic. Bottom line, Reefer Madness is just another corny and bad movie like A Troll in Central Park and the Super Mario Bros movie.
johnstonjames murder. false imprisonment. hit and run. suicide. merciless corruption of teen age children. and it all couldn't be funnier if they intended it to be. which, of course they didn't, and that makes it even funnier.this film is so authoritarian that it naturally brings out a rebellious streak in the viewer. it brings the viewer to such a point of rebellious cynicism that you actually think it's funny when the protagonist get killed or succumb to malady. i mean hit and run has never been funnier. and i'm not so sure it's good to respond like that. but even if i wasn't high, i'd probably think this whole movie a absurdest delight. this movie really brings out the cynic in you. especially about standardized thinking and conformity to the government.i've never liked alarm-ism, and it is practiced by both political branches left and right wing as a tactic. alarm-ism is often dull witted and of course, rather chicken little.this movie is also a smörgåsbord of phobias. this psychologically repressed little creep monster of a movie, manages to be phobic about everything from sex and drugs to music and of course, fringe type thinking. it even manages to inadvertently throw in paranoia of law enforcement in the process. this film really is a masterpiece of the inane and absurd. this story is so unintentionally repressed that you can't help but view it as a curiosity. even if you don't like drugs, this movie's attitudes toward sex are pure ridiculousness.sometimes paranoids have real enemies. not here. unless you count paranoia itself as the real enemy. i mean really, smoke a joint, turn into a crazed ax murderer? more addictive than heroin? um. are you sure you have your facts right?happy happy joy joy. and may God bestow his mercy and grace on all ya little pot heads out there on this joyous 420 holiday. 4/20/012