Purple Haze (1982)
- Directed by
- David Burton Morris
- Genre
- drama
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 37m
- Rated
- R
- Rating
- 6.3 of 10 from 3 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A college student gets kicked out of school for smoking pot and is then drafted to fight in the Vietnam War in 1968. The film follows him as he deals with the fallout of his expulsion and the looming threat of combat.
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What happens
Purple Haze is a 1982 dramedy film about Matt Caulfield, a college student who is expelled for smoking cannabis and is subsequently drafted to serve in the Vietnam War in the summer of 1968. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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