Growing Op
Growing Op if nothing else gives the uninitiated a ring side seat to a rarely highlighted Moncton, New Brunswick where this low budget Canadian film is was shot. Most recognizable is a not well aging Rosanna Arquette playing Diana Dawson, a stoner dropout school teacher along with series TV vet Wallace Langham as her ganja genus genius husband Bryce. The real focus of the film is their home schooled son Quinn (Steven Yaffee) studying Aristotle with his entrepreneurial Goth sister Hope (Katie Boland). Quinn is desperate for contact with his peers while disdainfully cultivating primo pot for dad and when Crystal Connors (Rachel Blanchard) the ultimate girl next door moves in across the street he shocks his parents by enrolling in public high school. Ironically the majority of his fellow students would like nothing better that to stay home all day with an unlimited supply of marijuana but here Quinn quickly discovers that the grass isn’t necessarily greener on the other side and winning the heart of Crystal is no cake walk. There is a cute coming of age angle here but the conclusion unlike dad’s sensimilla crème brule is no knockout.