Scrapple

While Scrapple is set in the fictional ski town of Ajax, Colorado (well named as both Telluide and Aspen have an Ajax), Scrapple has almost no skiing in it. It is set in the summer time and captures the slow grooving life that existed in the '70s in ski towns. The script is quite brilliant as it moves from that slow groovy pace into a vey focused story for the second half of the film. The music is as good as you will ever get in a film. The scenery is gorgeous and the acting is just good enough to make it all work. The movie is aging beautifully as the 70s move farther away into the rearview mirror.

I've never written a review before now. This movie struck a chord in me. I lived this life in Colorado in the 70s! It's so indicative of all things Telluride at the time. The characters are true to life and the incidences that happened were very real for the period. Thanks for the memories, Hanson brothers. I have to tell you that we ordered the Dharma Pig t-shirt... So cool. Then 2 weeks later we got another one with a note that said they couldn't engender if they sent it, so here's another one! Lol Loved it and loved the movie!

Though Scrapple is an excellent debut for the Hanson brothers, the average person may have a difficult time relating to the 'scene' represented in the film.

Scrapple is an excellent flick for drug culture fanatics and anyone who has ever been 'on tour'. Those people will recognise themselves and their hipster friends in this movie. I'm sorry to say, they will be the only ones who truly appreciate the various drug references characterised in Scrapple. You're average movie-goer either won't care or just won't 'get it'.

There's some nice cinematography--with the Colorado mountains as your backdrop, how bad could it be? The story doesn't move as quickly as I would like, I would rather the Hanson brothers left out the 'dead girlfriend' sequences and focused more on the comedy. Nonetheless, I was entertained and I really did not come away feeling the movie completely sucked.

"Scrapple" is a very well done and beautifully shot indie about a small time pot dealer who finds himself in over his head while trying to finance a humble house in a small Colorado hippie town to provide a better life for himself and his brother, a Vietnam vet who lives in a veterans hospital. Set in 1978, the film provides a look into the lives of a group of transient friends who have found a home sharing each others company in the town of Ajax, population 620. Well developed characters and a steadily moving plot-line keep the story going forward. And an outstanding soundtrack that features the considerable talent of Taj Mahal, Bob Weir and Jorma Kaukonen, to name a few, adds strongly to the beautiful, melancholy vibe of the film. I dug this film. Kudos to the Hanson brothers and I hope to see more from them.

I saw Scrapple when the director brought it to Colorado State University, and I had a blast. The story was very entertaining and -- living in Colorado -- I recognized a bunch of my ski-bum friends in the on-screen characters.

If you haven't seen it -- and provided you can actually find a place that's showing it -- go and watch. You'll be enjoyed, I guarantee.

At the very least, it's great to see what a porcine drug trip looks like. :)