Humboldt County

Humboldt County (2008)

  • 60% of critics liked it
    (20 reviews)

  • 57% of users liked it
    (1,427 ratings)

An ambitious and straight-laced young man falls in with a group of stoners and aging hippies in this independent comedy drama. Peter Hadley (Jeremy Strong) is a medical student in his early twenties whose dreams of a residency at a prestigious teaching hospital are dashed when he flunks out of a… More

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R,
Directed By
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Written By
Danny Jacobs, Darren Grodsky
Genres
Drama, Comedy
In Theaters
Sep 26, 2008 Wide
Magnolia Pictures

Critic Reviews

  • Maureen M. Hart, Chicago Tribune

    Be prepared: Humboldt County is a slow starter. But what appears to be the cliched uptight nerd liberated by flighty sprite tale evolves into something deeper, darker, more resonant.

  • Joe Leydon, Variety

    An amiably paced, character-driven comedy-drama about a disenchanted student who finds himself among the unreconstructed hippies and second-generation fringe dwellers who farm marijuana in the Lost Coast region of Northern California.

  • Kyle Smith, New York Post

    Possibly it might be of some interest with the right amount of buzz, but then so is a passing cloud.

  • Stephen Holden, New York Times

    So much pot is smoked in the agreeable drama Humboldt County that you may come away from it with a contact high.

  • David Fear, Time Out New York

    Though the movie achieves that New Hollywood contact high only in fits and starts, this familial drama still leaves a pleasant buzz.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Melvin W


    "It was a little further out than he thought." Humboldt County is a very disappointing film. It has a few scenes that are really good and every time one of them comes; I would think the movie was about to start getting better. But then the movie would fall right back into a… More

  • Devon B


    An uptight med student gets kidnapped by a bunch of dirty pot-growing hippies. No, really. Not that I have anything against dirty hippies, but these dirty hippies are also obnoxious and arrogant people who treat the uptight kid condescendingly. For some reason, the uptight med… More

  • Curtis L


    Takes me back to high school days, hanging out with grown adults who give pot to kids. Brad Dourif is my hero.

  • William G


    A pleasant dramedy about a medical student and the pot farmers who manage to shake him out of his ennui.

  • James B


    A quirkly little film about self-discovery. Yeah there is a bunch of pot farming and smoking, and most of that is amusing. But the heart of the film is about making choices in life and not being afraid of the consequences. Beautifully shot in northern California.

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