An aging hippie goes on a road trip in search of his long lost family. He meets up with his son (Paris Chong, Tommy's real-life son). Together they go off to see America. A majority of Tommy's real life family have roles; daughter Rae Dawn plays his daughter and wife Shelby has a lead role as his ex. Chong's former partner Cheech Marin makes a cameo appearance as a passenger in the back of Far Out Man's truck.
Labeled on promotional posters and in the opening credits as "A Tommy Chong Attempt", it was filmed in Los Angeles, California, USA on a low-budget of $500,000.[citation needed]
Floyd Sneed, former drummer of the rock group Three Dog Night, and brother of Chong's first wife Maxine Sneed, made a small cameo in the film as a drummer. A two-minute animation sequence was featured in the film, and it was animated by a then-unknown Dan Povenmire, who was a freelance animator for shows like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles at the time of the film's production. He would go on to create Phineas and Ferb in the future.[3]
Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly gave it a negative review, calling the film, "one lame ’60s-burnout joke after another. The movie [Far Out Man] is so weightless it barely gives you a contact high."[4]
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