In an alternate (and, frankly, better) universe, Augustine Frizzell\u2019s Never Goin\u2019 Back<\/i><\/strong> would have been one of the biggest comedy hits of 2018, with star-making performances from Maia Mitchell and Camila Morrone. Instead, Frizzell\u2019s hilarious, heartfelt, and often beautiful stoner comedy barely made it into theaters before being relegated to the furthest reaches of Amazon Prime. An exuberant celebration of female friendship that begins with one friend drawing a dick on the other friend\u2019s face while she\u2019s sleeping, Never Goin\u2019 Back<\/i> follows the misadventures of teenagers Angela (Mitchell) and Jessie (Morrone) in their repeatedly thwarted quest to spend a weekend at the beach. Like Harold and Kumar\u2019s journey to White Castle or the dudes\u2019 search for their car in Dude, Where\u2019s My Car?<\/i>, Angela and Jessie\u2019s trip is a MacGuffin that provides a tour of their hardscrabble south Texas life, working at a rundown diner and living in semi-squalor with Jessie\u2019s brother. Despite their numerous disadvantages and setbacks, Angela and Jessie are almost always upbeat and confident (and high). \u201cThank God we\u2019re not sad on the inside,\u201d Angela says, and watching this movie will give anyone that same internal glee. It\u2019s a contact high.<\/span><\/p>\n In an alternate (and, frankly, better) universe, Augustine Frizzell\u2019s Never Goin\u2019 Back would have been one of the biggest comedy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":539,"featured_media":10872,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1381,1399],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movies","category-looking-back"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/539"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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