Join us at Lamar for a free screening of HUMBOLDT COUNTY tonight at the Alamo South Lamar at 7pm with directors Darren Grodsky and Danny Jacobs in person!
It was the toast of SXSW and is poised to break wide as a slacker classic of all time.
Grodsky and Jacobs’ affectionate nod to 1970s American filmmaking brings together an ensemble of established actors including Brad Dourif, Frances Conroy, Peter Bogdanovich, Fairuza Balk; rising stars Jeremy Strong (THE HAPPENING, upcoming on Broadway, “A Man For All Seasons” opposite Frank Langella), Chris Messina (Woody Allen’s VICKY CRISTINA BARCELONA) and youngster Madison Davenport (KIT KITTREDGE: AN AMERICAN GIRL).
Located on the far North Coast of California and on the margins of society is a region nicknamed “The Lost Coast” but geographically known as Humboldt County.
It is there, amongst the state’s breathtaking Redwood forests that marijuana farmers co-exist peacefully within the rural community. It is there that Peter Hadley (Jeremy Strong), a promising but tightly-wound UCLA med student, finds himself stranded when he’s deposited at the multi-generational family home of the free-spirited Bogart (Fairuza Balk), following a drunken one-night stand.
Frustrated and disillusioned with his life after his professor/father (Peter Bogdanovich) fails him on an important exam, the unworldly Peter at first rejects the welcoming yet eccentric pot-smoking strangers, along with their eclectic group of friends and fellow farmers, but soon allows himself to be embraced by their ideals and begins to see life a bit clearer: despite the smoke.
HUMBOLDT COUNTY is a story of the human soul in search of happiness and the unexpected places we can sometimes call home.
Opens for a full run at the Alamo South Lamar on September 26.
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