Please don't bother with this one. It has great actors (Ed Norton and Melanie Lynskey, Keri Russell - she's getting better all the time), but they are totally wasted in this stupid story written and directed by Tim Blake Nelson. The fault lies with him.
I suppose this is supposed to be a farce, or maybe a farce of a grand tragedy, about twin brothers (Ed Norton) who have taken different paths in life. One is an ivy league professor, the other is a genius pot grower with a simple view of what is important. It doesn't work. The paragraphs of dialog from the philosophers, and Walt Whitman poems, etc., do not mix well with the cross-bow shooting rednecks or the Jewish drug kingpin. Just pass.
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