AN uptight LA medical student becomes the pet to a com mune of shaggy pot farmers who urge him to mellow out, man, in the indie dramedy “Humboldt County.”
Lured to the weed Brigadoon by a girl (Fairuza Balk), the student (Jeremy Strong) gradually unwinds and learns the wisdom of the gentle flannel-shirted tokers. These include Frances Conroy and ’70s character actor Brad Dourif, whose bare hindquarters I did not need to see.
The entire script, which boils
down to a hopelessly embarrassing lesson about “this beautiful place that can make people live again,” seems to have been written within arm’s reach of a bong. Possibly it might be of some interest with the right amount of buzz, but then so is a passing cloud.
Running time: 98 minutes. Rated R (profanity, drug use). At the Sunshine, 143 E. Houston St., near First Avenue.