The Weed Detective
Filmed in Las Vegas, Nevada in Sept 2015.
A comedy web series that examines what happens to a vulnerable minority when it finds itself in the need for a detective: namely, Potheads (or Stoners, if you prefer) who have misplaced “something”. What is a pothead to do? Call the police? Call CSI? Call a crime lab? Aaron Krumm, the Weed Detective, a former MIT genius in String Theory, now blackballed with a felon drug conviction, offers his services to this vulnerable minority. Without a science lab in sight, and using only his wits, humor and intuition, Aaron solves the mysteries before him. That is, if his own Mother, Hermann Pepper (his dealer) or The Man doesn’t get to him first.
Directed by John E Seymore and Kendal Sinn
Written by Jonathan Tomhave
Cast
Robbie Carlysle
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Aaron Krumm
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Handsome, athletic and intelligent, creative and yet cautious. Aaron Krumm is thirty-ish and a proud but disappointed graduate of MIT: proud because he has used his intelligence so well there, disappointed because a felony conviction for pot has reduced him to using his intelligence to helping other potheads find their shit when they have misplaced it. As a result, Aaron can be touchy when dealing with others and, like so many other MIT graduates with a dash of Asperger’s Syndrome, he is at ease with arranging objects and numbers but pretty much at sea when dealing with emotional complexity. Nevertheless, he is a kind soul, a little shy even, and ever ready to put on his Superman cape and save the day, while at the same time he struggles just to open the front door and leave his house.
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Madisen Hill
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Adrianna Bella
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Aaron’s dark-haired, good-looking 17-year old niece. Addy is an overly clever girl, who quotes literature and connives to skip school by spying on her favorite uncle. She is high-spirited, funny and resourceful, but also naïve and emotionally fragile, as her parents have abandoned her to run off to save some endangered animal or plant. With the exception of her beloved uncle, she is now alone in the world. Her goal is therefore to be an adoring, but mischievous, Watson to his Sherlock. |
Laurel Wiley
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Mother Krumm
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Tall, thin blitzkrieg of a Mother, once beautiful, now wizened and hard. Mother Krumm has endured 30 years of arguing and directing lives – and the pushback that comes with it. Her toughness, however, is tempered by her absolute devotion to her son’s success in the world. She wears a dark blue business suit and packs heat, smokes expensive cigars and will blow smoke into the face of anyone who crosses her. Her speech is formal yet humorous, her plans are devious yet creative and her outlook on life is unchanging: the human race is divided into two parts, the shearers and the shorn. Naturally she is a lifetime member in the International Shearers Union. |
Robert Catrini
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Tomas Boykin
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Chris O'Brien
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Salt
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Pepper’s wife and business partner. Salt is blonde and white, in his early twenties, slight of build, quite shy and sweet. He is imaginative, thoughtful and lives a life filled with rap music. He loves but cowers before Pepper. Additionally, Salt notices emotional nuances that Pepper might miss and he tries to mitigate Pepper’s violent streak |
John D. Crawford
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Blue Gentian
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A good-looking, muscular and rather sour man. Blue has never gotten over the fact that he, a macho man, was named after a flower. He is an abrupt, over-bearing, largely humorless, clever criminal in the business of selling forged documents of the US government to the New York Times. Being a stoner, he also tends to misplace things, which makes him even more irascible. Little does he know that Aaron’s Mother is about to turn his world upside down. |
Jules Hartley
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Brittany
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A sad beauty from a trailer park. Brittney is a petite, thin, beautiful and overly available. She is earnest, thoughtful in a limited way, kind, and eager to please whoever might help or dominate her. She is particularly wounded over the love-hate relationship she had with her recently deceased father. It seems that she does not have control over her emotions – rather, her emotions seem to have control over her. |
Baldeep Singh
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Rudolf
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A pleasant but utterly ineffective plump, prematurely balding young man in his twenties. Rudolf is not an asshole at all, he is just saddled with the name, along with everything else in a life that he did not choose. He lives in the messy basement of his mother’s house. Rudolf is generally perplexed by the world around him, especially the girls in it, and has a marked skill at inventing imaginative ways to kill himself. Like every other job he has tried, however, he has never gotten past the conversational stage. |
Peyton McDavitt
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Preston Edwards
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Beautiful, blonde, and blessed with the kind of clear skin that only the wealthy can attain, Preston Edwards is also damaged and a drunkard. She is tallish, slender and fine-boned, self-confidant and well-bred - but alternatively, she is equally shrewish, terrified and angry. Preston has not recovered from the violent death of her wealthy parents, which she unreasonably blames on herself. One moment she will be witty and thoughtful, the next screaming in fear and the next after that, she will be in a fury – who she is depends, in short, on whatever trips the memory of her past. The closer she gets to herself, the more frightening it becomes to her. Like Samuel L. Jackson, Preston is roaming the earth in order to find a sense of peace and meaning. The only difference between her and Samuel L. is that her journey did not come from a moment of clarity. It same from a moment of horror. |
Justin Hoffmeister
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Buck
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Tall, tow-headed, raw-boned and none-too-smart, Buck races swamp buggies, wrestles alligators and shoots wild boar for their meat. He gets in a disagreement with Pepper over passing counterfeit money and Pepper wins the argument. |