10 Weirdest Presidential Portrayals In Film

10. Franklin D. Roosevelt - Reefer Madness

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8P_qjLhtA74&list=RD8P_qjLhtA74#t=154

The original Reefer Madness - released in 1936 - was a highly exaggerated take on the effects of marijuana that was essentially produced as a propaganda film to convince people to stay away from the drug. It is hilarious in its own right, so it's no surprise that it was eventually parodied years later.

The film was brought to the stage in 1998 as a musical, taking full advantage of the nonsense claims of the original to produce something so ridiculously weird that even the most stoned of individuals would struggle to come up with something odder.

The musical featured a portrayal of Franklin D. Roosevelt, who would be played by Alan Cumming in the made-for-TV film version in 2005. Cumming plays a number of roles in the film - including the lecturer that can be seen in full song and dance mode in the clip above - with his turn as FDR essentially being used to grant a presidential pardon to a character named Jimmy, who was pressured into his first joint near the beginning, thus setting the events of the film in motion.