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Purple Haze is a american film of genre Drama directed by David Burton Morris released in USA on 1 october 1982 with Peter Nelson

Purple Haze (1982)

Purple Haze
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Released in USA 1 october 1982
Length 1h37
OriginUSA
Genres Drama
Rating70% 3.518323.518323.518323.518323.51832

Purple Haze is a 1982 dramedy about Matt Caulfield, a college student who is expelled for smoking cannabis, and subsequently drafted to Vietnam in the summer of 1968.

Synopsis

The film opens in Princeton University, 1968, where Matt Caulfield and his friends are watching television. There, they witness President Lyndon B. Johnson inform us of his plans not to rerun in the upcoming election. Upon hearing of his plans, Matt and the rest of the students celebrate by smoking marijuana. An uncool student from next door is disturbed by the boys' racket, and upon being pelted with junkfood by the boys for telling them to be quiet, he calls the police. Within minutes, Matt and his roommates are caught smoking, and are banned from college campus. Matt returns home to his family, where he is faced with various issues before being shipped off to Vietnam.

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Peter Nelson

(Matt Caulfield)
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