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A disillusioned medical student is stranded for a summer in a remote community of counterculture pot farmers, the last place in the world he imagined he would discover himself. | full synopsisNewsDesk:
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(Cast overview, first billed only) | Fairuza Balk | ... | Bogart |
 | Peter Bogdanovich | ... | Professor Hadley |
 | Frances Conroy | ... | Rosie |
 | Madison Davenport | ... | Charity |
 | Brad Dourif | ... | Jack |
 | Chris Messina | ... | Max |
 | Jeremy Strong | ... | Peter |
 | Darren Grodsky | ... | Bob |
 | Danny Jacobs | ... | Steve |
| Elayn Taylor | ... | Zelda |
| Roy Marin | ... | Harry |
| Jabari Morgan | ... | Agent Gallant |
| Julia Oliveira | ... | Agent Weiss |
 | Bethany Therese | ... | Sophie |
| Nathan Pierce | ... | Deputy Dirksen |
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A few friends and I caught the premiere of Humboldt County at the South by Southwest film festival in Austin last night. Quick summary: If you get a chance, go see this movie.
Prior to seeing it, there was some debate about whether this was a "drug" movie, especially since a few other premieres at SxSW ("Harold and Kumar II" and "Super High Me") are drug related--it's not. Although there are certainly joints in many (most) of the scenes, they are background and no more the focus of the movie than the gorgeous redwood trees and sweeping coastline that are also omni-present. Humboldt County is all about character development, some fantastic acting, and scenery that takes your breath away. When we were talking about the film after, we all agreed that that most similar movie we had all seen was "Garden State" except tone down the love story and shoot it in one of the most beautiful places on earth instead of Jersey (sorry NJ).
The co-directors and script writers (friends since they were 6) took questions after the show which is always interesting. Two of my favorite tid-bits from that: 1) One of the directors has an Uncle and Aunt in Humboldt and much of the script is based on real characters from his summers there as a child. 2) When the directors went to Humboldt to get away and work on a script, they were actually working on a totally different script which they scrapped so they could write this Humboldt-inspired one.
One other interesting point came out of the Q&A in which someone pointed out that for a directing debut, Humboldt was pretty ambitious--REAL actors, shot on location in 35mm, full length, etc. etc. It's a good point, and makes the movie all the more impressive...