The mellow, aging owner of a medicinal marijuana dispensary ropes his wayward son into working for him — on the very day cops and criminals turn the place into a madhouse!
This is a film about modern trials and tribulations, resulting in a better world and wrapped into a comedy. In our story Pops, the owner of a Medical Marijuana Business, convinces his son Carlyle to stop running the streets and take over the family business, which results in serious repercussions from the boy’s former employer, a local drug lord.
Not just a picture about marijuana and stoners who run around getting in trouble for two hours; POT SHOP is a look into a family business as it is passed down from father to son. The decisions a man has to make between friends and fortune. Love and passions realized. Along with the interactions between a group of people who work close together while united behind one cause.
This film is based around an industry that is a huge topic in media and on the minds of people worldwide. Audiences will be exposed to the ideology and protocol within the Medical Marijuana Industry; all while engulfed in a story that involves a wide variety of ethnic characters and age groups.
All together this provides a lucrative opportunity, and an environment for a great story to be told, around a subject that appeals to a huge demographic in both domestic and international markets.
• Films about family, which involve comedy and a touch of romance, are today’s top box office sellers. Coupled with a topic that has massive interest and mass media coverage the film already has in place a great public relations campaign in a long-term market.
• Medical Marijuana is one of the most talked about businesses when it comes to society today, and has been for 100’s of years, as it will be for ages to come. Everyone is curious as to what the business and lifestyle are like.
• This concept is designed as a franchise. Part one we have Pops give his shop over to his son. In part two we show the city trying to close the shop and the community standing up. Part three the shop confronts legalizing marijuana and corporations coming in. Even a forth film where Carlyle is ready to give the shop to his son. These concepts are endless.
• The film has great potential to be made into a TV show which picks up after the film and revolves around the day-to-day activities, characters and customers in the shop. Think the TV show Cheers meets Weeds with a side of Barbershop.
• That room for endless product placement and merchandising opportunities including clothing and accessories, marijuana related products and paraphernalia, video games, sound track, collectibles, hemp products (which can include anything from shampoos to molded products) and more are massive for this film.
With the proven formula behind this genre of film, mass appeal on the subject and proper talent POT SHOP will become a cult classic and remain reordered and on shelves, top 10 lists and more, for years after it’s release.
