Idaho International Film Festival
 

HUMBOLDT COUNTY

Directed by Danny Jacobs & Darrin Grodsky
USA, 2008, 97 minutes, Narrative
Cast: Jeremy Strong, Brad Dourif, Fairuza Balk, Frances Conroy, Peter Bogdanovich
www.humboldtcountymovie.com

Humboldt County
 

Humboldt CountyLocated 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 Humboldt County(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.


CLOSING NIGHT FILM

Egyptian Theatre: Sunday, September 28th at 7:00pm