Weeds (VHS) [1987] Nick Nolte

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Weeds (1987)


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Weeds is a 1987 drama film about a San Quentin inmate who writes a play which catches the attention of a visiting reporter. The film was directed by John D. Hancock, and stars Nick Nolte, Ernie Hudson, and Rita Taggart.


Nick Nolte ... Lee Umstetter
Ernie Hudson ... Bagdad
Rita Taggart ... Lillian Bingington
Mark Rolston ... Dave
Lane Smith ... Claude
John Toles-Bey ... Navarro
Joe Mantegna ... Carmine
Essex Smith ... Vocalist
Sam L. Waymon ... Vocalist
Orville Stoeber ... Lead Guitar
Cyro Baptista ... Bass Guitar
J.J. Johnston ... Lazarus
William Forsythe ... Burt the Booster
Anne Ramsey ... Mom Umstetter
Ray Reinhardt ... Pop Umstetter


The film is about their efforts to become professional men of the theatre. It's about the ways in which working together changes them and the ways in which it doesn't."

Hancock, who used to be the director of the San Francisco Actors Workshop, did some work with the convict Rick Cluchey and his San Quentin Drama Group, (whose late 1960s show The Cage toured the U.S. and Europe), and the film grew out of Hancock's contact with Clucheys company and out of his and Dorothy Tristan's research into other prison theatre groups.