Bongwater (1998) on Netflix
David, an artist and pothead in Portland, loves Serena, but his house burns down and she leaves for New York with Tommy. Lonely, he turns to marijuana and his strange friends.
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David is an artist and pothead in Portland, Oregon. When he sells marijuana to Jennifer, she introduces him to Serena, and his friends Robert and Tony take an immediate dislike to her. Serena admires David's drawings and tells him to pursue art as a career. She moves in, but his house later burns down. Frustrated with his lack of drive, Serena departs for New York with Tommy, a paranoid punk rocker and heroin addict. Left behind, David turns to marijuana and his odd circle of friends to forget the loss.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Bongwater (1998)
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- The film adapts Michael Hornburg's 1995 novel, which drew on his own life in Portland in the mid-1980s; the Serena character, called Courtney in the book, is based on Courtney Love, whom Hornburg knew in Portland.
