Reefer Madness (also known as
Reefer Madness: The Movie Musical) premiered on April 16, 2005 on the
Showtime cable
network. It is a
television movie version of the
2004 musical, and stars
Alan Cumming as the Lecturer,
Ana Gasteyer as Mae, and
Kristen Bell as Mary. The movie also stars siblings
Christian and
Neve Campbell as Jimmy Harper and Miss Poppy. Kristen Bell, Christian Campbell, and
John Kassir reprise their roles from the stage;
Robert Torti, who played both Jack and Jesus on the stage, portrays only the latter in the movie version (
Steven Weber plays Jack in the movie).
The film premiered at the 2005
Sundance Film Festival. It also screened in competition at the 2005
Deauville Film Festival and won the Premiere Audience Award. On the night of April 20, 2005, Showtime aired the musical back-to-back with the
1936 exploitation film that inspired it. The film won the 2005 Emmy Award for Music and Lyrics (for the song "Mary Jane/Mary Lane," which was written specially for the movie). It also received Emmy nominations for Choreography and Make-Up Effects. The movie was released on DVD on November 8, 2005.