WEEDS: THE COMPLETE FIFTH SEASON

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• Release Year: 2005
• Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
• Plot: Lee Umstetter is a lifer at San Quentin prison and a multiple suicide attempter. Eventually, another prisoner suggests reading to find something better to do with his time. Lee takes that advice and finds himself inspired from what he reads to write a play about life in prison. He has auditions and assembles a cast from his fellow inmates. The play proves popular and it catches the attention of a female reporter who writes about it, creating publicity that allows for a parole for him. Once out, he later reassembles his cast when they come out to do the play professionally. However, they learn that the demands of the life outside are difficult to cope with for the newly released and their play needs to be changed in major ways while they struggle to make it succeed.
• Cast: Mary-Louise Parker, Hunter Parrish, Alexander Gould, Kevin Nealon, Justin Kirk, Elizabeth Perkins, Allie Grant, Andy Milder, Tonye Patano, Romany Malco, Demián Bichir, Enrique Castillo, Maulik Pancholy, Indigo, Guillermo Díaz, Renee Victor, Jack Stehlin, Hemky Madera, Martin Donovan, Becky Thyre, Matthew Modine, Shoshannah Stern, Page Kennedy, Fatso-Fasano, Eden Sher, Alanis Morissette, Mary-Kate Olsen, Bruce Nozick, Anthony Ledesma, Hannah Marks, Jillian Rose Reed, Julie Bowen, Ramón Franco, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Michael Harney, Meital Dohan, Jamie Denbo, Pablo Schreiber, Tressa DiFiglia, Kate del Castillo, Julanne Chidi Hill, David Doty, Shawn Schepps, Larry Joe Campbell, Joey Luthman, Michelle Trachtenberg, Sammy Fine, Tracii Show, Roy Abramsohn, Albert Brooks, Mel Fair, John Fleck, Eric Lange, Ron Canada, Vincent Laresca, Alex Schemmer, Rick Ravanello, Brooke Smith, Olga Sosnovska, Alejandro Patino, Richard Dreyfuss, Haley Hudson, Daryl Sabara, Emilio Rivera, Aidan Quinn, Matt Peters, Roy Werner, Shawn Michael Patrick, Zooey Deschanel, Onahoua Rodriguez, Bob Rumnock, Patricia Harris-Smith, Richard Hilton, Rick Scarry, Kevin Alejandro, Seth Isler, Arthur Darbinyan, Andrew Rothenberg, Richard Azurdia, Robert Allen Mukes, Karen Strassman, Melvin Abston, Blaise Embry, Assaf Cohen, Todd Robert Anderson, Aisha Hinds, Seychelle Gabriel, Lisa Darr, Sprague Grayden, Lee Majors, Tyrone M. Mitchell, Martin Short, Jamie Renée Smith, Gary Anthony Williams, Justin Huen, Jessica St. Clair, Lindsay Sloane, Sharon Sachs, Ethan Kent, Paul Alayo
• Director: John D. Hancock
• Runtime: 6:00
• Media Format: Series