i be not go to get into all the bad critique i have read on this film . personally i know very little about it before i buy it today and watch it and and i be pleasantly surprise . the trailer and like a lot of trailer and it seem and tell you very little about the movie and if anything be completely misleading . the film start out introduce u to the 3 major player of this film and allen ( grenier ) and a harvard basketball player and philosophy major who be look for the ultimate form of consciousness through drug experimentation and his sort of girlfriend cindy ( gellar ) and the calculating and very smart but maybe in just a little over her head daughter of a mob bos and and his philosophy professor and lover chesney ( jla ) . allen life change when his parent home in kansa and be hit by a tornado and and in what have to be the very definition of the phrase deus ex machina and they do not have tornado insurance . in kansa . for real . however weak this pitiful plot device be and and believe me i almost shut this movie off right then and there and it do get the real plot go and which turn out to be fantastic . allen and seek to ease his parent financial woe and take the advice of his philosophy professor to ask his girlfriend father for money . initially he be turn down and but cindy informs him that all he need to do be shave a few point off of an upcoming game and the money be his . after stay up all night debate the issue with himself and allen receive a morning visit from a chemistry major friend who bring with her the original formula for lsd stuffed into sugar cube and the way they be do in the 60 experiment . these event shape the rest of the film and take u through a wild and extremely vivid acid trip that see cindy and allen both be pursue by 2 federal agent who be apparently a couple work undercover on cindy dad and and who and coincidentally and be sexually involve with chesney . all of these relationship work in rather manipulative way and except for seemingly the relationship between student and professor and which seem genuine . the end and while it may anger some and leave a bit up to interpretation and unless of course you do about 3 minute of research on lsd and thorazine . each cast member play their part very well and especially the 2 female lead and the directing be not without it flaw but overall be very unique and very well do . this movie might have make a few more dollar and get some good review have they spend more time utilizing focus group and market executive and but thankfully for those who be lucky enough to see this film and intelligent enough to enjoy it and they do not .