Over the course of his strange and varied career, Harold L. "Doc" Humes was many things: novelist, editor, proto-beatnik, jazzbo, pothead, filmmaker, manic depressive, mid-century Don Quixote, crackpot, genius. Timothy Leary claimed Humes was "an important invisible force" while George Plimpton called the loquacious Doc a "talking machine." Humes was also a father, and daughter Immy Humes has crafted a guardedly affectionate portrait of this nearly forgotten countercultural figure who's ripe for rediscovery. (Coincidentally, Hulmes two celebrated novels,
The Underground City and
Men Die, have recently been republished after years of obscurity).
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Released:
2008
Rated:
NR
Length:
98 mins