None of the characters in Bongwater are a marijuana dealer.
Bongwater is a 1998 American black comedy film directed by Richard Sears and starring Luke Wilson , Alicia Witt , Amy Locane , Brittany Murphy , Jack Black , and Andy Dick . Based on the 1995 book of the same name by Michael Hornburg , the film is set in Portland , Oregon , and follows an aspiring artist and marijuana dealer and his relationship with a tempestuous woman he meets through a client . Bongwater (novel) . Utilizing two different narrative perspectives , it follows a drug dealer and his counterculture friends in Portland , Oregon , as well as his tempestuous ex-girlfriend who has fled to New York City after the dissolution of their short-lived relationship .