Pineapple Express

Dale Denton (Seth Rogen) is a 25-year-old process server who, in delivering a subpoena to drug lord Ted Jones (Gary Cole), witnesses Jones and his girlfriend, a corrupt police officer, Carol Brazier (Rosie Perez), commit murder. Dale panics and leaves a roach at the scene containing a rare strain of marijuana called Pineapple Express. Ted and Carol run outside to catch the witness, only to miss him. Ted picks up the roach and identifies it as the rare strain that he has only sold to one dealer. He sends his two henchmen, Budlofsky (Kevin Corrigan) and Matheson (Craig Robinson) to the dealer, Red (Danny R. McBride), who discloses that he has only sold this marijuana to Dale's dealer, Saul Silver (James Franco).Dale flees to Saul's apartment in a panic because he doesn't know where else to go. After a brief conversation, Dale realizes Ted could trace the roach back to Saul. They flee Saul's apartment. Ted's henchmen persuade Saul's supplier, Red, to arrange a meeting between Red and Saul, but this fails because Dale and Saul spend the night in the woods. Matheson and Budlofsky learn Dale's identity through Red.Concerned that the corrupt police officer could "triangulate" on their cell phones, the two men smash Dale's cell phone and throw Saul's into the woods. They then sleep eighteen hours before paying a late visit to Red. They hope that talking with Red in person will help them determine that Ted has not linked them, and is not in pursuit of them. Instead, Dale decides that Red will reveal their whereabouts to Ted, and the three fight. Convinced that Ted's men are pursuing them, they decide that they must leave the city. Dale goes to his girlfriend Angie's (Amber Heard) house to warn her and her parents, but Angie's dad does not believe him. Instead, he threatens to shoot Dale. Matheson and Budlofsky pursue Dale and Saul to Angie's house, and her family goes into hiding.To leave town Dale and Saul sell some of Saul's Pineapple Express to raise bus fare. They get money after offering marijuana to a couple of middle school kids, who gladly smoke the marijuana with Dale and Saul. A police officer catches Dale smoking a joint and arrests him. Handcuffed in the back of a squad car, Dale manages to convince the arresting officer that Officer Brazier is corrupt. Saul 'saves' Dale by gaining control of the squad car, and drives away with Dale handcuffed in the back seat. Officer Brazier hears a police radio call of Dale's arrest for battering a police car, and pursues Dale and Saul in a high speed chase, but Dale and Saul evade her.Dale and Saul argue about the mess they have found themselves in, resulting in Dale telling Saul that they aren't friends and never were. The two decide to break apart from each other. Saul visits his grandmother in an assisted living home and finds Budlofsky and Matheson looking for him. They kidnap Saul and take him to Ted's lair, a barn and underground pot grow house which used to be an old Army base. Dale enlists Red to help him rescue Saul from Ted, but Red backs out at the last minute and Dale is captured.While Dale and Saul are captive, they make up and Dale admits that Saul really is his friend, but was reluctant to admit that earlier. A rival Asian drug gang then attacks the barn to avenge a member's death at the hands of Ted and Carol. Dale and Saul free themselves and join the conflict. Just as Ted prepares to go off and fight Dale, he and Carol kiss. Afterwards, Dale and Ted endure a brawl that ends in Ted's death when one of the Asians sets off a bomb that will destroy the barn. Matheson kills Budlofsky for refusing to kill Saul when he had the chance. When Matheson is about to kill Saul, Red returns and saves Saul, killing Matheson with his car. While Saul thanks Red, Carol reaches for a gun and shoots Red. The bomb goes off, first exploding Red's car and the burning car falls on top of Carol crushing her. Dale carries an unconscious Saul out of the burning barn, and Red crawls from the wreckage.Saul, Dale, and Red go to a diner for breakfast, then Saul's grandmother picks them up to go to the hospital.