Among cinema’s best ‘stoner’ archetypes, past or present, Diane Keaton brought to life some of the most memorable film moments where cannabis appeared naturally, without drama or moralizing. A calm, witty, and impossibly chic on-camera weed enthusiast.
Keaton left this world on October 11, leaving behind a filmography that, through laughter and vulnerability, reshaped how Hollywood portrayed relaxation, desire, and female intelligence.
Californian actress, fashion icon, adoptive mother, and Oscar winner (also a lover of design, architecture, and photography) and, more recently, a late-blooming singer, who finally fulfilled an almost-forgotten dream. Keaton’s characters offered both stoners and non-stoners alike dialogue and scenes that were, at the very least, beautiful, while voiding the burned-out cliché of the dazed pothead who can’t string two thoughts together.
In Shoot the Moon (1982), her character smokes a joint in the bathtub. An intimate, melancholic gesture more than a rebellious one, where weed becomes an emotional refuge in the middle of a crumbling marriage.
Decades later, in The Family Stone (2005), Keaton plays a matriarch with cancer who faces her illness surrounded by humor and family warmth. In one of the film’s most relaxed scenes, the family shares some suspiciously festive brownies, hinting at the use of weed without spelling it out. A wink to anyone who knows, and a reminder that sometimes, family warmth comes baked.
Annie Hall: the first stoner girl
The scene where Annie Hall, the iconic ’70s character in Woody Allen’s (Alvy Singer) film, asks him if he’s ever made love while high, cracked open one of the most countercultural doors of it’s and became one of cinema’s most cited portrayals of casual cannabis use in the mainstream.
Alvy refuses, uncomfortable. Cannabis makes him anxious, distrustful, afraid of “losing control.” Annie, on the other hand, embraces …
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Author: Camila Berriex / High Times
