Scrapple

1998
1h 33m

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Small time drug dealer Al Dean (Geoffrey Hanson) sells pot to his friends in the small Colorado ski town of Ajax, in hopes of raising enough money to buy a house for himself and his brother,... Read allSmall time drug dealer Al Dean (Geoffrey Hanson) sells pot to his friends in the small Colorado ski town of Ajax, in hopes of raising enough money to buy a house for himself and his brother, who is in the VA hospital. He will finally be able to afford the house once his shipment ... Read allSmall time drug dealer Al Dean (Geoffrey Hanson) sells pot to his friends in the small Colorado ski town of Ajax, in hopes of raising enough money to buy a house for himself and his brother, who is in the VA hospital. He will finally be able to afford the house once his shipment of "Nepalese Temple Balls" comes in. When they finally arrive, a pig named Scrapple, which... Read all

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sapienza

This movie is 100% fun. :)

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. :)

9Blind Willie McTell

Peace, Love and Pigs in the Mountains of Colorado

"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.

10EditBoy-2

Babe meets Easy Rider

Scrapple is a wonderful hippie comedy. Set in 1978,the town of Ajax, Colorado is poised on the edge of turning from a fun-loving hippie community to a yuppie ski resort. While a small time drug dealer is out for the ultimate score, the outcome could mean the end to a way of life, particularly for Scrapple the Pig. The groovy music is by Taj Mahal. Beautifully photographed by Robert Smith and sublimely acted by an ensemble cast, Scrapple sweeps you away to a more innocent time. Viewers have commented: "It makes you want to quit your day job."

10adamlichtenstein

10 years down the road

of all the times that i've watched scrapple (some 100) in all kinds of venues (at 3 in the morning on a couch with other bar stragglers, at new york film festivals), nothing compared to seeing it in its hometown at mountain film festival, with a hometown crowd as they whooped and yelped at all the local references, ski town tributes and cameo performances (all of which still has appeal to broader less tuned-in audiences). it was like a screening of rocky horror picture show with the same level of participation and more; singing, line-readings, cat calls, wolf whistles, salutes (to Charlie Fowler and Bill Fandel). ten years down the road -- and still going strong -- scrapple has endured as a classic, and judging from last week's screening, it continues to mark a time, not only in skitown history, but as a way of life still worth celebrating.

9tewsy-44356

Greatest film ever about ski town culture

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.