
Peter is burned out: finishing med school at UCLA, failing the bedside manner class his father teaches, no sleep in days. He spends the night with Bogart, a woman he's just met, and the next day, sleepily gets in her car. He wakes up in Arcata, where Bogart's foster family lives in the woods: Max, his daughter, mom, and step dad. They grow marijuana for their own consumption, except for Max, who has planted six hidden patches for one big score. Bogart hates pot farming - feds... (Full plot summary below)
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Peter is burned out: finishing med school at UCLA, failing the bedside manner class his father teaches, no sleep in days. He spends the night with Bogart, a woman he's just met, and the next day, sleepily gets in her car. He wakes up in Arcata, where Bogart's foster family lives in the woods: Max, his daughter, mom, and step dad. They grow marijuana for their own consumption, except for Max, who has planted six hidden patches for one big score. Bogart hates pot farming - feds are on constant patrol - so she splits, leaving Peter to depend on Max for a ride to the bus. A day stretches into two, and Peter puts off leaving. A reckoning with his dad is inevitable: is Peter's rebirth possible?
Leave your thoughts about Humboldt County.
| Seattle Post-IntelligencerBill WhiteNot a moment rings true in this sentimental drama. |
| ColeSmithey.comCole SmitheyThe fish-out-of-water story shows the potential for a specific environment to transform an individual's consciousness, while never glamorizing or preaching the influence of marijuana. It's a gem of a film rooted in the reality of familial bonds and shifti |
| Chicago TribuneMaureen M. HartA slow starter. But what appears to be the cliched "uptight nerd liberated by flighty sprite" tale--done better in films from "Bringing Up Baby" to "Barefoot in the Park"--evolves into something deeper, darker, more resonant. |
| MovieFreak.comSara Michelle FettersI'd forgotten just how brilliant an actor [Brad] Dourif can be when actually given the opportunity. |
| Austin ChronicleMarc SavlovIt's like the Sixties never happened, or maybe happened too much. |
| Boxoffice MagazineAmy NicholsonThe indie folk on the soundtrack teeter the film perilously close to another emo Gen-X flick about discovering who you really are, man, yet its quiet assurance hoists it to the top of genre. |
| Seattle TimesMark RahnerA relaxed, sweetly amusing little indie effort that'll make you want to hang out with its inhabitants, except with better snack food than they have. |
| Film Journal InternationalDoris ToumarkineDud drama about a med-school failure from L.A. who finds himself amidst pot-growing hippies in a remote corner of the eponymous "Lost Coast" county. |
| VarietyJoe LeydonIts low-key charms are considerable enough to engage venturesome ticketbuyers. |
| San Francisco ChronicleWalter V. AddiegoHumboldt County has an impressive cast and captures some of that era's fuzzy rebelliousness and humanism, but taken on its own the picture is finally thin stuff. |