High Hopes also billed as Nice Guys is a 2005

2005 in film

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 film directed by Joe Eckardt.

Plot

Hollywood hopeful Tom Murphy and his posse of pals conspire to get into the big leagues. Pinning their hopes of industry success on Tom's famous girlfriend starring in their first feature, falls to pieces when she dumps him. Tom and his pals learn of another possibility and devise a plan to steal a fenced case of government issued marijuana, return it to the FBI and use the reward money to finance their movie. Little do they know a scorned girlfriend and her deaf mute brother have other plans.

Cast

• Jason Mewes
  Jason Mewes
  Jason Edward Mewes is an American television, film actor, and internet radio show host best known for playing Jay, the vocal half of the duo Jay and Silent Bob, in longtime friend Kevin Smith's films.-Early life:...
  
   as Quebert
• Lacey Chabert
  Lacey Chabert
  Lacey Nicole Chabert is an American actress and voice actress, known for her roles as Claudia Salinger in the television drama Party of Five and as Gretchen Wieners in the movie Mean Girls...
  
   as Cindy
• Andy Dick
  Andy Dick
  Andrew R. "Andy" Dick is an American comedian, actor, musician and television/film producer. His first regular television role was on the short-lived but highly influential Ben Stiller Show. In the mid-1990s, he had a long-running stint on NBC's NewsRadio...
  
   as Patrick
• Danny Trejo
  Danny Trejo
  Dan "Danny" Trejo is an American actor who has appeared in numerous Hollywood films, most notably in roles as an antagonist, or anti-hero.-Early life:...
  
   as Shady
• Jennifer Finnigan
  Jennifer Finnigan
  Jennifer Christina Finnigan is a 3-time Daytime Emmy Award winning Canadian actress, perhaps best known for her role as Bridget Forrester in the American soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful from 2000 to 2004. She appeared in the ABC sitcom Better with You.-Biography:Finnigan was born in Montreal...
  
   as Morgan
• Edward Furlong
  Edward Furlong
  Edward Walter Furlong is an American actor whose best known film roles are John Connor in Terminator 2: Judgment Day and Daniel Vinyard in American History X. He is a two-time Saturn Award nominee, winning the 1992 Saturn Award for Best Performance by a Younger Actor for his performance in...
  
   as Tye
• Robert Rodriguez
  Robert Rodriguez
  Robert Anthony Rodríguez is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer, editor and musician. He shoots and produces many of his films in his native Texas and Mexico. He has directed such films as Desperado, From Dusk till Dawn, The Faculty, Spy Kids, Sin City, Planet...
  
   as Mr. Lewis
• Dallas Page
  Dallas Page
  Dallas Page , better known by his ring name "Diamond" Dallas Page , is an American retired professional wrestler, fitness instructor and actor...
  
   as Sleezy Guy
• David Faustino
  David Faustino
  David Anthony Faustino is an American actor and rap artist primarily known for his role as Bud Bundy on the sitcom Married with Children.-Early life:...
  
   as Ben
• Corin Nemec
  Corin Nemec
  Corin "Corky" Nemec is an American actor. Nemec is known for playing the title character on Parker Lewis Can't Lose, Jonas Quinn on Stargate SG-1, and Harold Lauder in the ABC miniseries The Stand.-Personal life:Nemec's mother was a graphic artist as well as a painter, writer and poet...
  
   as Tom
• Michael DeLorenzo
  Michael DeLorenzo
  Michael DeLorenzo is an American actor, director and musician. He is best known for his portrayal of NYPD Detective Eddie Torres on the Fox Thursday night television series New York Undercover which was aired from 1994-1998....
  
   as Rocko
• Jason Marsden
  Jason Marsden
  Jason Christopher Marsden is an American screen and voice actor who has done numerous voice roles in animated films, as well as various television series.-Early life:...
  
   as Wendell
• Gina DeVettori
  Gina DeVettori
  Gina DeVettori is an American actress and writer. DeVettori was born on Cinco de Mayo and is a native Californian.-Movies:DeVettori has appeared in the films 40 Days and 40 Nights, Party Animalz, High Hopes, Opie Gets Laid, The Shiftling, Gothic Vampires from Hell and The Mexican Dream.-Voice...
  
   as Carly
• Cecily Gambrell as Julie
• Ted Raimi
  Ted Raimi
  Theodore "Ted"/"Half Ted" Raimi is an American actor, perhaps best known for his roles as Lieutenant Tim O'Neill in seaQuest DSV and Joxer the Mighty in Xena: Warrior Princess/Hercules: The Legendary Journeys...
  
  as Special Agent Brown