Touches You

This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

I'm a fan of farmers but this mass-media notion that farmers are losing their shirts doesn't hold water in the real world. Unless they are VERY stupid, there are so many federal subsidies available, along with other programs, that farmers would never even consider growing pot. Plus, as pointed out by others, to just pick fresh plants and throw them into a garbage is not the way pot is sold (or so i've been told. Nod, nod, wink wink.) The movie itself is shallow, the characters ridiculous.

I caught this on Cinemax very late at night...nothing else was on so I pretty much had no choice. Bottom line, terrible plot, slow, waste of good film and actors' time. To make it short, don't even bother with this one. It's too bad we can't give zeros as a rating; this one really is not worth even a consideration!!!

The DEA agent's name, Anslinger, is a nice inside joke - this is the name of the former drug czar who almost single-handedly made marijuana illegal.Despite this bit of book knowledge, the writers go on to have the farmers harvesting and selling fresh undried leaf, rather than cured buds.Additionally, I always find it amusing that movie makers never seem to be able to find real marijuana plants for filming. You would think there would be a business that would make real looking fake ones for the movie business or maybe they could film a couple of scenes in Amsterdam or Switzerland. I suppose that's asking too much for the budget.Probably the most interesting thing about the film is the attempt to cover the notion of exactly what is right and what is wrong in society and how the law treads that line and yet tries to do justice in spite of it.

Funny how people "upholding the law" can justify what laws they choose to follow. This movie has a lot of truth. How many people do you see throwing their cigarette butts out the window of the car? Isn't there a law against littering? And isn't tobacco a drug? Also interesting how "Big Business" makes laws that benefit them, and then uses marketing to convince the farmer to borrow money, then starves him out, takes his land, and forces him to get a factory job which makes stuff so Big Business can sell it back to them and take more of their money. I think it's funny when the DEA agent gets sick from eating the non-processed food that is grown organic by the same farmers she is trying to arrest. I thought the writers made their point very well. Everyone should watch this movie and wake up to what is happening to the farmland. Urban sprawl is a self-serving industry. In the immortal words of Ray Zalinsky, `What the American public doesn't know is what makes them the American public'. WAKE UP people! And check out `GRASS'.