Where the Air Is Cool and Dark (1997)

80 min★ 6.5 · 66 votes

• Drama

Thirty-year-old Emmett LeClere, a former logger and recovering drug addict, returns from school in New York to make a film in his Olympic Peninsula hometown. To finance the project, he decides to grow marijuana with an old buddy. After an abbreviated affair with an ex-girlfriend ends in a drug binge, Emmett finds a promising but doomed new romance. Countering good intentions with dishonesty, Emmett is soon left questioning his place in the world.

Release date

November 21, 1997

Country of origin

Not yet available · likely United States (estimated from cast and crew)

Music

Chris Eckman, Pete Gerrald, Carla Torgerson