Lammbock
Two small-time Würzburg pizza entrepreneurs scramble to protect their cannabis business when diseased plants invite an unexpectedly disruptive outsider into their lives.
Ember's analysis
- Pacing
- Brisk
- Intensity
- Moderate
- Complexity
- Easy to follow
- Violence
- Mild
- irreverent
- witty
- chaotic
- late night comedy
- stoner movie night
What sets it apart
May contain story progression spoilers
Stefan and Kai operate a pizzeria as a cover for delivering their homegrown cannabis.
The cannabis plants' illness prompts an apparently practical intervention that destabilizes the protagonists' entire operation.
Stefan and Kai's friendship drives the pizzeria business, cannabis trade, and their responses to mounting trouble.
The story situates cannabis dealing, pizza delivery, family ties, and encounters with authority in Würzburg.
Films like Lammbock, and why
Pineapple Express
stoner comedy, criminal misadventure, irreverent humor, and young adult aimlessness
Friday
drug-centered buddy comedy, escalating chaos, and comic encounters with authority
In Bruges
cult comedy energy, marginal characters, and absurd criminal entanglements
Movie Details
- Director
- Christian Zübert
- Release Date
- 2001-08-23
- Runtime
- 93 min
- Rating
- 6.9 / 10 (240)
Cast
- Lucas Gregorowicz
- Moritz Bleibtreu
- Marie Zielcke
- Julian Weigend
- Alexandra Schalaudek
- Elmar Wepper
- Alexandra Neldel
- Antoine Monot Jr.
- Wotan Wilke Möhring
- Christof Wackernagel
Common questions
- What is Lammbock about?
- Two small-time Würzburg pizza entrepreneurs scramble to protect their cannabis business when diseased plants invite an unexpectedly disruptive outsider into their lives.
- What is Lammbock like to watch?
- Ember's analysis rates the pacing of Lammbock as brisk, its intensity as moderate and its storytelling as easy to follow.
- Is Lammbock violent?
- Only mildly. Ember rates the violence in Lammbock as mild.
- Which films are like Lammbock?
- Films with a similar feel include Pineapple Express, Friday, and In Bruges.
- How long is Lammbock?
- Lammbock runs 93 minutes.
