If you're looking for something completely different, as Monty Python used to say, prepare yourself for The Wackness. Our L.A. writer Nancy Mills got an early look at this low-budget film, which won the Audience Award at this year’s Sundance Film Festival and opens in New York and L.A. today, then the rest of the country next Friday. She tells us about it:

If your memory of Ben Kingsley is in a white robe playing Gandhi, the 1982 film for which he won an Oscar, prepare yourself for a shock.  In this dark comedy, he plays a psychiatrist who trades counseling advice for free marijuana from a high school student, who happens to have a crush on Kingsley's stepdaughter, who also buys marijuana from him. Got that? Josh Peck, from Nickelodeon's Drake and Josh, plays the drug dealer, but you may not recognize him because he has lost about 100 pounds.  Kingsley and Peck spend a lot of time together in this odd-buddy comedy as they both try to get a grip on big changes in their lives.  Watch for Olivia Thirlby as the stepdaughter/love interest.  She played Ellen Page’s best friend in Juno and has another memorable part here.  And seeing Gandhi with muscles in a sleeveless t-shirt is almost worth the ticket price.

Check out the trailer below, and let us know what you think.