Up in Smoke was Cheech and Chong's first feature-length film, released in 1978.

Plot

Tommy Chong plays Anthony Stoner, a jobless hippy who is kicked out of home by his father and manages to coerce Pedro (Cheech) into picking him up off the side of a highway by posing as a woman with large breasts. They both share a large joint and are arrested when they are discovered stoned by a police officer. After a their trial, they are released and in an attempt to procure some marijuana they visit Strawberry, Pedro's Vietnam veteran cousin. Narrowly escaping a drug bust on Strawberry's house, they are soon deported to Tijuana in Mexico by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services together with Pedro's illegal immigrant relatives who just want a free ride to a wedding.

In order to get back to America, they arrange to pick up transportation from Pedro's uncle's upholstery shop, which is really a marijuana marketing plant, and end up unknowingly implicated in a plot to smuggle a van constructed completely out of spray-on marijuana from Mexico to Los Angeles with the inept police narcotics unit hot on their heels.

Along the way, Cheech and Chong pick up two women who convince them to perform with their band, Alice Bowie, at a Battle Of The Bands while still narrowly avoiding the police and in one case, even getting pulled over; luckily for them, the officer got high off the smoke coming from the back of their van.

The movie concludes with Cheech and Chong winning the Roxy Battle Of The Bands and the reward of a recording contract with a performance of their song Earache My Eye.

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