Movies Like Stoned

Frequently asked about Stoned

Common questions people search for, with answers written by us at MoviesPack.

• What are the top 10 stoner movies?▾

  Frequently cited stoner films include Cheech and Chong's Up in Smoke, The Big Lebowski, Dazed and Confused, Friday, Half Baked, Pineapple Express, Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, How High, and Smiley Face. Rankings vary by publication, but these titles regularly appear on best-of lists for the genre. Note that Stoned (2005) is a biographical drama about Brian Jones and is not a stoner comedy.

• Where was the movie Stoned filmed?▾

  Stoned was shot primarily in the United Kingdom, with locations in England including the Cotswolds and Sussex standing in for Brian Jones's Cotchford Farm estate. Some sequences were also filmed in Morocco to recreate the Rolling Stones' 1967 trip there.

• What movie took 29 years to make?▾

  The Other Side of the Wind, directed by Orson Welles, is widely cited as taking roughly 48 years from the start of production in 1970 to its eventual release in 2018. A film often referenced for a 29-year production span is Richard Linklater's Boyhood, which was filmed over 12 years, though no widely known feature is specifically associated with a 29-year production timeline.

• What is the film's theory about how Brian Jones actually died?▾

  The film presents the theory that Brian Jones was murdered by his builder Frank Thorogood, who was living at Cotchford Farm at the time. According to the film's dramatization, Thorogood drowned Jones in the swimming pool during a confrontation, possibly motivated by resentment over money disputes and Jones's erratic, abusive behavior toward him. This theory is based on a deathbed confession Thorogood allegedly made to his friend Janet Lawson.

• Why had Brian Jones been pushed out of the Rolling Stones before his death?▾

  By 1969, Jones's drug addiction and psychological deterioration had made him unreliable as a band member — he was frequently unable to play during recording sessions. His drug convictions also threatened to prevent the Stones from touring, as he could be denied entry to certain countries. Mick Jagger and Keith Richards had effectively taken creative control of the band, and Jones was asked to leave just weeks before he died.

• Who is Frank Thorogood and what is his relationship to Brian Jones in the film?▾

  Frank Thorogood is the working-class builder hired to renovate Cotchford Farm, the Sussex property Jones purchased from A.A. Milne's estate. The film portrays their relationship as deeply ambivalent — Frank is simultaneously seduced by Jones's rock-star world and humiliated by his employer's contempt and erratic cruelty. This volatile dynamic of attraction and resentment is central to the film's exploration of what led to Jones's death.

• What role does Anna Wohlin play in the events of the night Brian Jones died?▾

  Anna Wohlin was Jones's Swedish girlfriend and was present at Cotchford Farm on the night he died. In the film she is portrayed as one of the key witnesses to the events, though her account conflicts with other versions of what happened. She has maintained in real life that Jones was murdered and that foul play was involved, a position the film largely dramatizes.

• How does the film use the character of Brian Jones to comment on his place in the Stones' legacy?▾

  The film frames Jones as the original creative visionary of the Rolling Stones — the one who named the band, shaped its early blues identity, and introduced exotic instrumentation — only to be eclipsed and ultimately discarded by the Jagger-Richards songwriting partnership. His decline is portrayed not just as personal self-destruction but as the casualty of a power shift within the band, lending his death a tragic irony: the founder erased from his own creation.