It’s the smart pusher who doesn’t use. At least not knowingly as in the case of Dov (Shlomo Bar-Aba), a 75-year-old widower who after less than a week in a posh retirement center is already scraping a tin cup against the bars of his gated community. Dov blames the eviction from his family home on a government-predicated loss of pension and he will not rest until he has the funds needed to repurchase the property. He learns of a program that provides seniors with free medicinal herb, but is so put off by the stigma surrounding cannabis that he can’t bring himself to say the word. But he can come up with a way to make cash off it. He encourages the locals, even those who don’t partake, to take advantage of the offer and sell him their flower that he in turn will peddle to a local dispensary. Dov doesn’t smoke, but after one bite of an edible cookie, he’s zig-zagging a golf cart through the sprinkler system. (Note to the writing-directing team of Assaf Abiri and Matan Guggenheim: it’s pot, not windowpane.) Odelia Mora-Matalon is the house doc who captures Dov’s heart and Alon Neuman plays the cop looking to bust the geriatric dope ring in this generally agreeable comedy. (2020) — Scott Marks
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