Nice Dreams

Nice Dreams
Directed byTommy Chong
Written byTommy Chong
Cheech Marin
Produced byHoward Brown
StarringCheech Marin
Thomas Chong
Stacy Keach
CinematographyCharles Correll
Brianne Murphy
Edited byThomas K. Advildsen
Tony Lombardo
Music byHarry Betts
Production
company
C & C Brown Production
Distributed byColumbia Pictures
Release date
  • June 5, 1981 (1981-06-05)
Running time
88 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Box office$35 million

Nice Dreams is a 1981 American action adventure comedy film directed by Tommy Chong and starring Cheech & Chong, in their third feature film. Released in 1981 by Columbia Pictures,[1] the film focuses on the duo having gotten rich selling cannabis out of an ice cream truck, and evading the Drug Enforcement Administration, led by Sgt. Stedanko (Stacy Keach), who are trying to bust an alleged drug kingpin named "Mr. Big", and discover a strain of marijuana that turns people into lizards, including Stedenko, who has been smoking cannabis to get inside the head of a drug user.

The film costars Paul Reubens and Evelyn Guerrero, and features small appearances by comedians Sandra Bernhard and Michael Winslow, and a cameo by Timothy Leary. Nice Dreams grossed $35 million, but it received mixed reviews.

  1. ^ Maslin, Janet (June 5, 1981). "Nice Dreams (1981) CHEECH & CHONG BACK IN THE STONED AGE". The New York Times.